Interesting. I wonder if the threads are getting shorter - a sign of the times, perhaps.
I was thinking it might be useful to know about all the ones that people have appended the tag 'SOLVED'. I wonder if someone at Adobe might pick this up and create a searchable database of solutions. Imagine clicking on keywords and having the threads highlighted, with a solution tagged on the end. A suitable AIR project perhaps, using the 11meg downloaded message list. In my situation, just to keep control, I delete earlier months of messages once I get over 4000. It would be nice to be able to find all those wise words about a topic of concern. John Doug McCune wrote: > > > I've got the numbers for longest threads too, just didn't include > those stats in the post. Here are the top 5 threads for all time and > for the past year. > > For all time: > Splitting FlexCoders into smaller, focused groups - 137 messages > Will Microsofts new Silverlight Player kill our beloved Flex? - 129 > messages > Flex 1.5 price - 103 messages > Choice of backend systems - 82 messages > SEO Compatibility - 66 messages > > For only 2009: > Flex Builder on Linux being scrapped - 38 messages > New Adobe Forums coming! - 37 messages > Question about a Flex component - 34 messages > Roles Based UI - 33 messages > Ribbon in FLEX - 30 messages > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM, John McCormack <j...@easypeasy.co.uk > <mailto:j...@easypeasy.co.uk>> wrote: > > > > Very interesting stats., and it's hat's off to Tom Chiverton and > Tracy > Spratt. > Thank you to them. > > How about a star burst to show which topics led to the most > subsequent > activity? > > John > > > > Doug McCune wrote: > > > > > > Seems to be back up, god I hate servers, but I guess that's why > I do > > front-end development. > > > > BTW, I'm going to be investigating getting a full dataset of the > Adobe > > Flex forums too and will likely do some similar visualizations > once I > > figure out how to get the data. Looks like the forum software Adobe > > uses (from Jive) has webservice access and I should be able to > write > > something to pull all the data. If anyone has any experience with > > this, drop me a line. > > > > Doug > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com > <mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com> > > <mailto:d...@dougmccune.com <mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com>>> wrote: > > > > And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware, > > working on it. Sorry for the "check this out, oh wait, server > > crashed" :P > > > > Doug > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411 <primo...@gmail.com > <mailto:primo411%40gmail.com> > > <mailto:primo...@gmail.com <mailto:primo411%40gmail.com>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Wow ! The UI looks really nice :) > > > > 2009/11/3 Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com > <mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com> > > <mailto:d...@dougmccune.com <mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com>>> > > > > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > Last night I put together a post that details some of the > > stats for this list: > > > > http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/ > > > > The post also contains a download of the entire archive of > > all flexcoders messages (up through last night). The file > > is a CSV file and contains the sender name, subject, and > > date of every message ever posted to the list. It contains > > 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's > > in MS Access format) that contains all the full-text of > > the messages, but that file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting > > it for download, but if someone has some ideas about what > > to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow. > > > > I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about > > whether the list was declining in traffic, whether it > > should be split up, yadda yadda. I finally got around to > > getting a really good complete dataset to play with. Hope > > you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the > > list) know if you do anything cool with the data yourself. > > > > Doug > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
