I cut-and-pasted the AGS forum stats into a Google Spreadsheet and generated some charts. They show that while the amount of posting in the forums has had a small downward trend over time, the actual number of people registering and online has been steadily climbing. So the forums are accumulating more, less chatty people.
The cool thing with these charts is that they are dynamic, so if I update the spreadsheet (and, that's a big if, admittedly!) then they will be updated. Cool as mince!
Hmm, even through those charts showed the data the right way round in the spreadsheet, the published versions are backwards. I've reported the bug to google. Meanwhile, don't forget to check the dates on the X axis!
ReplyDeleteI was about to post that these trends seem to be showing exactly the opposite of what you're saying, but then I noticed the backwards X axis. Weird.
ReplyDeleteWeird indeed. Interesting information nontheless! Little note: get a double Y axis on the first graph if google allows you!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it doesn't have that capability yet. No doubt it will later, but meantime it is a bit simple.
ReplyDeleteGuess either newbies are put off or not interested by the forums or they just make games!!
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