Subject: Re: Oh, fantastic!
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Posted on: 2014-08-21 15:54:00 UTC
"Board order" means that posts should be in the same order they were on the Board, reading top-to-bottom.
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Board archives, 2014 edition (mostly pinging hS) by
on 2014-08-21 15:36:00 UTC
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Yesterday, around 2 PM central time (UTC-5), I took another archive of the Board and merged it with the old archives. You can find the results, as a big gzipped csv file in the same format as previous archives, here. The raw data (in Ruby's Marshal format, bzipped) is here (2012-2014) and here (2008-2013).
The new archives have a few minor improvements:
1. The posts are now in "Board order"
2. About 15-20 posts weren't previously included in the archives because their subject lines looked like bad HTML to my web scraper (for example " -
Oh, fantastic! by
on 2014-08-21 15:50:00 UTC
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I'll work on getting them updated on the Archives page. Thank you very much!
I assume by 'Board order' you mean the most recent posts in a thread are at the top, as opposed to their previous bottom- position? Does that also include the threads being sorted by reverse time-stamp, so the newer threads are at the top?
Either way, I agree that's a big improvement... though it's going to wreak merry havoc on our comment-based interlinking. I might have to preserve the old versions for the links that are already in them, and have new ones go into the current version...
hS
(PS: Haha, yep, there it is:
Date --- Unique IPs --- Pageviews --- Pages per IP
2014-08-17 --- 394 --- 7043 --- 17.9
2014-08-18 --- 340 --- 6576 --- 19.3
2014-08-19 --- 520 --- 12314 --- 23.7
2014-08-20 --- 384 --- 43078 --- 112.2
I wonder who the extra 150 IPs which visited on the 19th were, though... how very odd. ~hS) -
Re: Oh, fantastic! by
on 2014-08-21 15:54:00 UTC
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"Board order" means that posts should be in the same order they were on the Board, reading top-to-bottom.