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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Forum to cross 40,000 topics
From:       Ben Cooksley <bcooksley () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-01-18 9:02:23
Message-ID: CA+XidOGH+2kxPNP7ZffSMM9SP--hvAArJ8C95u8j9HSwXfVk5A () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Carl Symons <carlsymons@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:
> > > Hi Promo folks,
> > > 
> > > In a few weeks time, the forum will likely see the creation of it's
> > > 40,000th topic.
> > > Do we want to do something to mark this important milestone?
> > > 
> > > (Note: the front page of the Forum gives a much higher number than
> > > 40,000 due to a database incrementation issue, the real count of
> > > topics is currently 39,343)
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Ben Cooksley
> > > KDE Community Forums Administrator
> > > 
> > 
> > 40,000 topics doesn't seem like an important milestone to
> > me...especially having no basis for judgement or comparison with other
> > forums.  And disagreement with numbers might be awkward.
> 
> Not a disagreement, but the database counts all topics ever made, even
> the deleted ones (spam for example)-
> 
> I think it would be nice to actually not only count the topics but the
> threads and the number of regular users, those figures are equally
> impressive.
> I don't know Carl, but 40.000 topics is more than what you usually get
> in a mailing list in many years. And raising awareness of the forum is
> always a good idea :)

Just to clarify the above:
- A forum topic is equivalent to a mailing list thread. This number
will soon reach 40,000.
- At this time, ~185,000 posts (equivalent to a single email on a
mailing list) have been made.

Regards,
Ben

> 
> Regards, Myriam
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