Re: Forum to cross 40,000 topics

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Myriam Schweingruber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> 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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