I was sure some variant of that information had to be publicly available somewhere as Dave is absolutely nuts about stats like that and he's written quite a bit of the more elegant stuff here.
I have to wonder about the definition of "logged in". Whether it counts people who have remained logged in and came to the site, or whether it's only people who have logged out, so have had to go through the login process. I know because I ran across it today while doing something else that we do track the last date someone logged in, and it was a really old date for me.
Something else to bear in mind that really kinda beggars belief when talking about a free site, but is a fact of life with message boards nonetheless. There are always WAY more people lurking who aren't logged in than there are who are logged in and lurking. In fact, there are ratios between posts and reads, and logged-in readers and non-logged-in readers that're pretty much constants. Talkzilla, despite being relatively still in the cradle, is starting to see these same ratios come into play.
And we have no way of figuring out how many people are lurking particular boards while not being logged in.
It might be helpful, though, to have a "Most Read" list here like we have on iHub.
Active Subjects, btw, is simply a reverse chronological listing of boards with the most recent posts. Once I hit Submit on this post, this board will be at the top of that list until someone posts somewhere else.
Edit: Oh, wait. I see that "logged in" doesn't seem to factor into it. It's activity. Which would only apply to logged in members. We don't update the time everytime everyone does anything, though. I'm not sure which activities do get logged, but know it's possible to make your way through quite a bit of the site and still be considered "inactive" as far as the database is concerned. Because it'd be way too expensive in terms of workload to have the system do an update every time every user clicked any thing. |
