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The evolution of boards.ie

Cloud · 2007-09-27 15:01:42

Hope you enjoy my presentation from BarCamp Galway at the weekend, featuring new statistics on how our topics have evolved since 1998. http://www.slideshare.net/Cloud/the-evolution-of-boardsie/20 (See the summary slide version.)

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27-09-2007 4:01pm

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Cloud

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Hope you enjoy my presentation from BarCamp Galway at the weekend, featuring new statistics on how our topics have evolved since 1998.

http://www.slideshare.net/Cloud/the-evolution-of-boardsie/20

(See the summary slide version.)

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#2 27-09-2007 4:04pm
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this all apears as just the underlining html code, but when i go to quote it appears correctly as embedded flash.

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#3 27-09-2007 4:04pm
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You have a lot of stars.

All you need to do is approve the Microwave and Time Machines forum, and your vision will be complete

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#4 27-09-2007 4:06pm
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Interesting. I think I saw some of it before elsewhere. Is the future for the next while confined to social.ie or will there be additional sister-sites/services coming on stream?

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#5 27-09-2007 4:06pm
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Yeah, a link will work better - edited.

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#6 27-09-2007 4:07pm
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054978195

tsk tsk

cool slide show, onwards and upwards!

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#7 27-09-2007 4:09pm
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Nice one Cloudie. Love the stats.

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#8 27-09-2007 4:13pm
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Wow, gamers gone from the dominant majority here to a small minority!

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#9 27-09-2007 4:16pm
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Nice, but I don't believe it evolved.
God did it all. Are you God?

Also, the 3% rise in the use of the Rec catergory over the last year is completely down to me.
You're welcome.

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#10 27-09-2007 4:21pm
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Very informative. Onwards and upwards....

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#11 27-09-2007 4:30pm
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Congrats on the success of .ie, but others I have visited, .jp and .us are basically in need of a kick up the arse. The only time there's any activity on .us is when .ie is down.

Maybe a consolidation or rationalisation of the empire is in order - make what works better, and what doesn't experience gained and history.

1.5 million visits (posts?), from 750,000 visitors is an odd stat. How few in number are the posters with a higher number of posts?

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#12 27-09-2007 4:37pm
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Interesting to see the progression over the years - particularly to a relative n00b like myself. Something to be very proud of!

Would liked to have seen the coke:hookers stats & how they've progressed; not to mention the Nazi Mod Machine & their army of LolCats that keeps the whole place running.

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#13 27-09-2007 4:38pm
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nice and flashy but no slides devoted to spiralling search ability.

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#14 27-09-2007 4:41pm
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1.5 million visits (posts?), from 750,000 visitors is an odd stat. How few in number are the posters with a higher number of posts?

abou half the members have never posted

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#15 27-09-2007 5:03pm
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Congrats on the success. Long may it continue.

I was very interested by the "topics trend" slides. Interesting to see the other topics catch up and overtake gaming.

Also, I never really realised the physical infrastructure behind boards.ie.

As a non-paying member (may be about to change ), I would like to thank those who provide such a great free service.

P.S. Anyone who feels the need to lambast me over the latter, do so in a PM. Let's keep this topic in a congratulatory vein.

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#16 27-09-2007 5:35pm
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Thanks all...

I should say that we do plan to employ someone full-time in the short term.

I think that this is the first step in our evolution towards a more business-like entity (in a good way), and will mean that we can no longer refer to boards.ie as a 'hobby'!

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#17 27-09-2007 5:40pm
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I'm actually proud to tell people the stats for this place, I genuinely feel like I am part of something .... even if some of you hate me

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#18 27-09-2007 5:53pm
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Cloud wrote:

Thanks all...

I should say that we do plan to employ someone full-time in the short term.

I think that this is the first step in our evolution towards a more business-like entity (in a good way), and will mean that we can no longer refer to boards.ie as a 'hobby'!

Exxxcceeelllllent.

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#19 27-09-2007 6:07pm
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Cloud wrote:

Thanks all...

I should say that we do plan to employ someone full-time in the short term.

I think that this is the first step in our evolution towards a more business-like entity (in a good way), and will mean that we can no longer refer to boards.ie as a 'hobby'!

That would be pretty cool. Congrats on all the success so far and I hope it continues long in to the future. Quick question cloud. Do you know where that thread you posted about how boards started out is. I could have sworn it was stickied in the newbies forum but it isn't there. It makes for very interesting reading.

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#20 27-09-2007 6:14pm
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Cloud wrote:

I should say that we do plan to employ someone full-time in the short term.

Full-time hooker/coke dealer?

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#21 27-09-2007 6:28pm
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Cloud wrote:

Thanks all...

I should say that we do plan to employ someone full-time in the short term.

I think that this is the first step in our evolution towards a more business-like entity (in a good way), and will mean that we can no longer refer to boards.ie as a 'hobby'!

Gis a job. Seriously. I need one where I can work from home.

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#22 27-09-2007 6:29pm
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Page 22 clearly contains a lie.

8 min 34 seconds????? Pah!

Mike.

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#23 27-09-2007 6:30pm
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Finally!

/me crosses out all work experience and replaces with S-mod boards.ie, References: Cloud, boards.ie

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#24 27-09-2007 6:44pm
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That is really cool John, seems like a lecture worth viewing. Would probably be good with some narration / opinion, but great all the same.

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#25 27-09-2007 6:51pm
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AlmightyCushion wrote:

That would be pretty cool. Congrats on all the success so far and I hope it continues long in to the future. Quick question cloud. Do you know where that thread you posted about how boards started out is. I could have sworn it was stickied in the newbies forum but it isn't there. It makes for very interesting reading.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1

That the one?

Maybe not

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#26 27-09-2007 6:53pm
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That's some really interesting stuff, thanks for posting it. Just out of idle curiosity, did you take questions about boards after the presentation? If so, what kind of things did people ask you about?

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#27 27-09-2007 6:54pm
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Cloud wrote:

Thanks all...

I should say that we do plan to employ someone full-time in the short term.

I think that this is the first step in our evolution towards a more business-like entity (in a good way), and will mean that we can no longer refer to boards.ie as a 'hobby'!

oh now there is a can of verms...

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#28 27-09-2007 6:57pm
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Spankeh wrote:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1

That the one?

Maybe not

No that isn't it. It was about how it started out and some of the things that happened through the years. It was pretty cool.

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#29 27-09-2007 7:05pm
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http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Pre-History
http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/History
http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Future

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#30 27-09-2007 7:58pm
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wow, 208 countries, that I didn't expect.

mike65 wrote:

8 min 34 seconds????? Pah!

Ok, in your case it stands for 8 hours 34 mins

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#31 27-09-2007 8:09pm
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Blowfish wrote:

wow, 208 countries, that I didn't expect.

Proxies+banned users?

<snip>

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