http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: top 100 bbPress sites en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:44:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-11417 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:46:44 +0000 _ck_ 11417@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Scrivs, could you tell me where to track your stats?<br /> I can't seem to find them.</p> <p>You're in the top1000 but I have no way of quantifying you otherwise. You can email me directly at bbpress.showcase -=at=- gmail.com if there is a private page/data I can use. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-11408 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:50:33 +0000 Scrivs 11408@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><a href="http://9rules.com/notes/">9rules Notes</a> and <a href="http://9rules.com/clips/">9rules Clips</a> run on the same bbpress and I'd like to think we are pretty big with over 90k replies and 12k+ members. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-11235 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:35:58 +0000 _ck_ 11235@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>New (permanent) home for the list and the showcase:</p> <p><a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100</a></p> <p>In other news I'll be returning to work on the showcase later this week/month and finally updating the list as well as releasing some more plugins/themes. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10768 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:19:30 +0000 _ck_ 10768@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Don't get too comfortable on your position in the list ;-)</p> <p>As I get more time to code it and add more data, the positions keep slipping. Now almost 1500 sites with ~1100 or so listed. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10724 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:21:35 +0000 HowToGeek 10724@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Sweet, I didn't realize I was in the top 100 too... I just opened mine a month ago. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10708 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:44:42 +0000 benbeltran 10708@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Wow. It's surprising how many sites are using bbpress, I thought there were much less. I hope some of these micro-forums (including mine) benefit from this. More awareness of the software is good for everyone who uses it. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10707 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:01:02 +0000 _ck_ 10707@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I don't want any kind of "phone home" plugin as that can be accidentally considered spyware as that's not my style at all. I'd rather do it passively. I'll eventually make a way for people to submit new sites or manually update stats if they need to.</p> <p>I've taken the fake numbers game into account.<br /> Anyone with a sharp increase in members or posts after each month will be examined carefully ;-) I'll remove anyone permanently that I catch "faking". It's kinda silly anyway, it's not like you get anything for being higher. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10706 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:51:02 +0000 henrybb 10706@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>_ck_: have you considered hacking up a plugin that gathers information about the forum upon activation and once per month after that and submits it to you in some way? Would automate the process way more for you and admins instead of having to post the link to you, and then you having to review all the sites.</p> <p>I'm thinking it would fill out an HTML form and submit it to a site you had. Then people could log in and see updated information about the most active bbPress boards and what their functionality was. And you could compile a static list regularly.</p> <p>If it was well written, I'd be interested in seeing it in bbPress by default so new admins who wouldn't find the plugin here could activate it and submit statistics.</p> <p>Ofcourse, there'd be some bozos trying to inflate their numbers sometime down the line.. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10705 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:33:52 +0000 fel64 10705@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><code>posts and users over time</code> is the only thing you don't have - and all I meant was since launch, anyway. Everything else you do have. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10700 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:07:29 +0000 _ck_ 10700@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Oh! Sorry, no I don't have that kind of data.<br /> I only started collecting the sites at the start of August<br /> and I don't plan to check the sites more than once a month.</p> <p>Right now there really are only 50 or so highly active bbPress sites so that kind of data simply is meaningless at this point. It's not like vbulletin where you have a massive installed userbase.</p> <p><a href="http://www.big-boards.com">Big Boards</a> doesn't bother to track bbPress sites (yet) so I thought my list would be a good idea to help promote adoption of bbPress. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites/page/2#post-10699 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:02:41 +0000 fel64 10699@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Uh, I was interested at looking at average contribution, ie. posts per user, posts and users over time if you have any time data, distribution of forums by posts, users and contribution, that sort of thing. All things that are easily doable over the web (but also a big load on the server), but trivial in Excel. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10697 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:41:37 +0000 _ck_ 10697@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What pretty colours? Anything useful I can mimic via the web? Screenshot example? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10695 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:11:36 +0000 fel64 10695@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Actually I'd be quite happy with the unfixed-up data, I just want to chuck it into Excel and look at the pretty colours. You don't need to do anything to it first for me to be happy with that. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10689 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:39:29 +0000 _ck_ 10689@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@Trent Oh that's weird, how did I miss that one! Thanks!</p> <p>@chrishajer right now it's ranked based on activity, not prettiness but user voting for 1. style 2. content will come eventually </p> <p>@fel64, I might release it under creative commons after I fix it up some more. There are some problems - excluded sites, repeated sites, etc. Plus I want to add more stats to them like tie them to alexa data, etc. I'm just low on time and have <a href="http://bbpress.dreamhosters.com/forums/topic/which-bbpress-project-should-i-startfinish-next">too many projects going on</a> :-(</p> <p>I need to figure out an anonymous donate system too, all this is starting to chew into my regular work! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10677 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:30:02 +0000 Trent 10677@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I think that wordpress.com should also be in there as it is a large site!</p> <p><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://en.forums.wordpress.com/</a></p> <p>Trent </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10674 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:18:54 +0000 chrishajer 10674@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hey, I made the top 100 and I am so embarrassed: my design is basically stock. <a href="http://riversideinfo.org/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://riversideinfo.org/forum/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10673 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:07:51 +0000 fel64 10673@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Have you got the raw data, would you share it? Or fancy putting up some visualisations and analysis up publically anyway? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10671 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:42:17 +0000 _ck_ 10671@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Congrats you made the top 100 ;-)</p> <p>Is anyone seeing the snap icons in the top100 list? Are they just blocked for me or for everyone? I think snap decided they didn't like me :-( Worked for a few hours and then disappeared. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10667 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:43:59 +0000 fel64 10667@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>If you're going to list Loinhead, you might as well put in some numbers. :)</p> <p><a href="http://forums.loinhead.net/statistics.php" rel="nofollow">http://forums.loinhead.net/statistics.php</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10664 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:40:44 +0000 _ck_ 10664@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I am pleased to have something to finally show for all my searching efforts.<br /> This list is obviously unofficial and just in beta test, I am still adding features and making corrections:</p> <p><a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100</a><br /> <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000</a></p> <p>There are roughly 1,000 sites listed, with the top 100 to showcase either sheer number of members/posts or user votes for style, etc.</p> <p>Right now they are listed in order of total members (but you can sort). I will have it eventually list by a weight between members, posts and votes for style.<br /> Also there will be user voting and preview thumbnails of the sites. (I was trying to use snap previews but it suddenly stopped working for me, so they might not have liked hundreds of links on a page, LOL - they are slow anyway and I want to learn to do snapshots via crawling code anyway)</p> <p>Some interesting observations/conclusions from all my work on this (whew):</p> <p>1. There are roughly 1000 public bbpress sites in existance<br /> 2. A great deal (&gt;~80%) of these sites have less than double-digit members, hence I consider them "micro forums"<br /> 3. bbPress is being adopted worldwide in an impressive variety of countries and languages<br /> 4. SEO'er/search engine spammers/made-for-adsense makers seem to have found and love bbPress (unfortunately)<br /> 5. There are some really amazing designs out there<br /> 6. Apparently the people that participate on bbpress.org are a very small fraction of the people using bbPress!<br /> 7. At least several dozen sites had installed bbPress and uninstalled it a few weeks later :-( </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10655 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:21:40 +0000 fel64 10655@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>vlp: <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-page-links-for-bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-page-links-for-bbpress</a> probably? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10652 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:07:04 +0000 benbeltran 10652@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@airdrawndagger: Thanks :D I'm glad it made you switch to this great software.</p> <p>@vlp: Sorry, I didn't quite understand. The page number, like for every page on the forum that's displayed on the front page? If it's that, there's a plugin for that :o... but I get the feeling that's not what you meant.</p> <p>@baptiste: I like the blue theme from baptiste.us ... :) Though maybe the blue text should be a bit clearer when its on blue backgrounds. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10651 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:51:19 +0000 baptiste 10651@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Not much traffic - but I've got Refresh going for my plugin blog and forums. Matches quite nicely - I mucked with the themes a bit but the ports were done by others thankfully. Getting the integration and WP sidebar on the forums took some fun mucking in the code... </p> <p><a href="http://plugins.baptiste.us/" rel="nofollow">http://plugins.baptiste.us/</a><br /> <a href="http://plugins.baptiste.us/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://plugins.baptiste.us/forums/</a></p> <p>One of these days I'll diff the changes I made to the Refresh port to get it to match the WP theme and have everything line up properly...</p> <p>This site is still under development:</p> <p><a href="http://onthepitch.org/talk/" rel="nofollow">http://onthepitch.org/talk/</a></p> <p>Still need to tweak the theme some, but I've made a variety of navigational changes. Click any topic and look at the meta section. Click on a forum and note the navigation links. Click on a subforum and note the breadcrumb trail. On the front page - I like having the latest posts first, but added a 'Forums' column to indicate where they were and make it easier for folks to jump into a forum (no scrolling down for active forums)</p> <p>Still a bit to do, but it's working better each day. The theme will eventually be green - thus the green ads. I keep trying to convince myself NOT to shoehorn in AJAX posting - but I really miss it - something that made bbPress 'cool' </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10648 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:02:05 +0000 vlp 10648@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>benbeltran: have you managed to get the page number on thread listing? is there any plugin for that? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10632 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:38:25 +0000 airdrawndagger 10632@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>benbeltran: Your forum is what made me decide on going with bbpress :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10562 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:37:21 +0000 benbeltran 10562@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Sure ... but i had to make some hacks to the template-functions *shame* to allow for color-changing tag-cloud.</p> <p>:( I don't know better. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10550 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:23:21 +0000 _ck_ 10550@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Oh that looks fantastic benbeltran (is that theme available for my theme demo?)</p> <p>The list is slowly but steadily coming long.<br /> I either keep getting distracted or burnt out on bbpress stuff.</p> <p>I cautiously "promise" to put something up this coming weekend.</p> <p>ps. yup, grindhouse was already on the list... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10549 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:50:43 +0000 benbeltran 10549@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@beer: nice.</p> <p>I guess It's time to put my link ... <a href="http://temporadadepatos.net/foros/" rel="nofollow">http://temporadadepatos.net/foros/</a> (spanish).</p> <p>By the way, how is this coming aorund anyways? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10541 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:25:33 +0000 Beer 10541@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Am I on the list?<br /> <a href="http://www.grindhouse.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://www.grindhouse.com/forums/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites#post-10498 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:13:00 +0000 mciarlo 10498@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Oh wow, thats truly a great compliment. Thank you ck! </p>