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monquixote · August 2013

135 Members!

What a fantastic achievement.

Thank you to everyone who has signed up today. This launch just couldn't have gone better.

If you would like to take us even higher don't forget to link to www.thefretboard.co.uk on facebook, twitter, other forums, or your personal blogs. Every link will be picked up by Google and Bing and will push us further up the search rankings.

TTony · August 2013

135.

That's not bad - we've only been open 9 hours!

Big thanks to Mr Emperor Fabulous for emptying pretty much all of his TEmpFab Forum membership over here.

ourmaninthenorth · August 2013

A great start, you backroom fellas should be rightly pleased as punch.

stickyfiddle · August 2013

Do the guys at MR know we've all done a bunk..? :-h

Sporky · August 2013

No idea - not sure they care either.

TTony · August 2013

Sporky said:

No idea - not sure they care either.

I'm quite sure that they wouldn't care less. Although they've probably forgotten by now that they had a forum and a community.

digitalscream · August 2013

Good lord, 161 now. Most impressive.

In order for MR to know or care, they would've had to actually put the effort in to look outside their own little garden; I think it's already been pretty conclusively proven that they have no inclination to do so.

I'm pretty damn sure they'll notice when their forum's overrun with spam on account of their entire moderation team being here instead of there, though

monquixote · August 2013

I can't wait for the stats graph from tomorrow to come back to us. That's going to be great.

Sporky · August 2013

That sentence has reaffirmed my belief that time travel is, or at least will have been, possible.

monquixote · August 2013

Reading it back, what the fuck am I on about?

Perhaps I should go to bed.

Sporky · August 2013

Well, I'm reasonably confident that I know what you meant, so it could have been worse.

Emp_Fab · August 2013

Believe it or not, yesterday evening I still had nineteen users on my site at one point. Six of those were registered users and the rest were guests. I may have to start banning people who dare to come to my forum.

Talking of guests.... is there an easy way to see how many guests / bots are on this site ?

TTony · August 2013

Emp_Fab said:

Talking of guests.... is there an easy way to see how many guests / bots are on this site ?

Good point!

After 24 hours (yup, I got up at 0830 on A Sunday morning just to check), we have 168 registered users. Not bad for a first day's work.

monquixote · August 2013

I thought I would share this rather marvelous activity graph of launch day with our users:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/monquixote/ScreenShot2013-08-04at083115_zpse0e04471.png

Made me smile

TTony · August 2013

digitalscream · August 2013

I expect it'll drop off a fair bit after the initial excitement and people exploring the place, but it'll be quite interesting to see what the consistent traffic pattern is.

In related news, I'm really rather proud of my little-server-that-could. I don't think there was a single blip during the whole day

TTony · August 2013

^^

Fate-tempter

Couldn't have done it without your little-server-that-did, and you!

Emp_Fab · August 2013

TTony said:

Big thanks to Mr Emperor Fabulous for emptying pretty much all of his TEmpFab Forum membership over here.

Yeah.... I demand special status forever. There I was, about to make the announcement that this place was open and urge my flock to flee into the arms of another forum, when I had this sudden urge..... They're my members...

.....Now it comes to it, I don't feel like parting with them, they're mine, I found them, they came to me!

But I overcome the power of my ring and let them free......

Give me a medal.

Talking of medals.... how come certain members have started off with massive numbers on the badges huh ? There's no way anyone got over a thousand 'knowledge' clicks in 24 hours. Are you running the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission as well ?

digitalscream · August 2013

Emp_Fab said:

Talking of medals.... how come certain members have started off with massive numbers on the badges huh ? There's no way anyone got over a thousand 'knowledge' clicks in 24 hours. Are you running the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission as well ?

Yeah, that was a half-joke by me just for the giggles - Nick got 1000, the rest of the initial dev team got 500. It was actually the result of me playing a bit when I was asked to remove some pre-launch facepalms. Sporky asked me to remove his extras, so I guess I should remove them from everybody's.

Well, I thought it was funny...

TTony · August 2013

Emp_Fab said:

Yeah.... I demand special status forever.

Without doubt, you'll always be "special"

Emp_Fab said:

Are you running the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission as well ?

Damn - was there another "election" over there?? I'd planned to win that one this time around, but didn't know it was happening (been too busy here).

The extra frets is/was a techie joke.

digitalscream · August 2013

It does bring up a small point - there's no way for people to know who's an admin/mod and who isn't. Since the rules specifically instruct people to contact the admin team as a last port of call for disputes, that's a bit of a problem. I can't remember if we discussed it or not...?

TTony · August 2013

Don't recall either.

But you're right - I've been thinking that we should (soon - give it a week or two to bed-in) enlist some mod helpers and probably have a sticky somewhere that states who the mods are, and who the admins are. We had lots of pledges of help.

Given that the admins are the overall controllers of the site, we might make those into elected positions - it's "by us, for us" and so should probably be "managed by us" too. Something to think about in back-of-mind over the next few weeks ... although you & Monqui are probably stuck with the techy admin roles for ever. And ever. And ever ...

monquixote · August 2013

Good point.

I was also thinking it might be worth having an admin e-mail address somewhere as people still seem to be falling flour of the spam filter.

Emp_Fab · August 2013

All jokes about power crazed maniacs aside... I don't think we need any 'mod helpers' really. There's virtually nothing for the mods to do, never mind helpers. Also... is it not possible to have the roles listed under the avatars like we had at MR ?

I want 'Special Mod' on mine.

In gold.

monquixote · August 2013

Ideally I'd like to avoid anything saying how super special people are in their post headers for the same reason we don't have post counts.

Mick · August 2013

digitalscream said:

It does bring up a small point - there's no way for people to know who's an admin/mod and who isn't. Since the rules specifically instruct people to contact the admin team as a last port of call for disputes, that's a bit of a problem. I can't remember if we discussed it or not...?

I thought the admins and mods would show up in the users online, by displaying their username (dependant on group) in a different colour, but that's not the case. Would be handy imo.

TTony · August 2013

But in a couple of weeks, we'll have thousands of members. Thousands. Maybe more.

I'm extrapolating from our experience on day 1.

We had lots of offers of help. I'd like to engage more of the volunteers in helping as and when we need it. Share the burden. But we should see how it goes over the next couple/few weeks - no point having everyone who joins becoming a mod as well.

Thousands of users ...

digitalscream · August 2013

TTony said:

Don't recall either.
But you're right - I've been thinking that we should (soon - give it a week or two to bed-in) enlist some mod helpers and probably have a sticky somewhere that states who the mods are, and who the admins are. We had lots of pledges of help.
Given that the admins are the overall controllers of the site, we might make those into elected positions - it's "by us, for us" and so should probably be "managed by us" too. Something to think about in back-of-mind over the next few weeks ... although you & Monqui are probably stuck with the techy admin roles for ever. And ever. And ever ...

Yeah...in terms of tech stuff, there's one hard-and-fast-rule - I'm not going to let anybody loose on my server unless I trust them implicitly. In fact, monquixote is the only exception I can remember, ever

I actually don't think we really need to make the admin status into an election; we've got a good team already, who work together well. I've never really come across a tech/design/admin team which worked particularly well when voted for by people who don't know what's involved; to my mind, this is definitely a case where a benevolent dictatorship works better than a democracy.

monquixote said:

Good point.
I was also thinking it might be worth having an admin e-mail address somewhere as people still seem to be falling flour of the spam filter.

Good idea. We'll need to make MX record changes, which could be awkward given the shit-pit that seems to be the domain registrar's control panel and support team (I still can't apply DNS changes). I suppose an alternative would be to run a light mail server on the web server, but I've never been to enamoured of that idea. I'll think something up.

Emp_Fab said:

All jokes about power crazed maniacs aside... I don't think we need any 'mod helpers' really. There's virtually nothing for the mods to do, never mind helpers. Also... is it not possible to have the roles listed under the avatars like we had at MR ?

I want 'Special Mod' on mine.

In gold.

I'm inclined to agree. Well, apart from the "Special Mod" bit. How about just "Special"?

digitalscream · August 2013

monquixote said:

Ideally I'd like to avoid anything saying how super special people are in their post headers for the same reason we don't have post counts.

OK, how about a non-code-based solution - create a category called "Forum Info" or something, then put the rules in it along with the moderator and admin lists? As long as there's something people can refer to, that should be sufficient.

Emp_Fab · August 2013

AND I would like one each of the "five hundred" badges that appear to have been plundered from the badge cupboard by Ttony, digitalscream, ddlooping and sporky and monquixote. Talk about eliteism !

Medal medal medal medal.....

Relinquish your ill-gotten swag - or - let me loose in the badge cupboard. My egalitarianism is flexible. $-)

digitalscream · August 2013

Emp_Fab said:

AND I would like one each of the "five hundred" badges that appear to have been plundered from the badge cupboard by Ttony, digitalscream, ddlooping and sporky and monquixote. Talk about eliteism !

There you go. Never let it be said that I'm not generous.

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