On Jan 31, 2010, at 11:13:06, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Jan 31, 2010, at 09:39:07, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> Well, >> I can probably speak on my behalf... >> I won't use forums, so no help from me if traffic is diverted into forums. >> >> Alon. > > Understandable, but I don't recall anyone basing the forums solely on your > support. There is no reason 'not' to do something simply due to a few users' > lack of interest in a particular venue. The fact of the matter is there are > forum users, mailing list users, and IRC users. It is foolish to omit one > group or another. > > While it's hard to filter out, the forums last year, the first year of > operation, received ~330,000 page views from 13,833 unique IP addresses. > This year (not quite one month), it has received ~38,000 page views from > 2,796 unique IP addresses. I've eliminated the largest viewers with obscene > view counts, as they are likely bots. The forum currently has 436 posts in > 140 topics, none of those being spam, as it is a moderated forum. There are > 126 users with one post, 56 of which have 2 or more. > > The openvpn-users mailing list had 3,349 posts in about 800 threads (quick > sample). In contract, the first year of operation of the mailing list > received 334 posts with a sharp increase near the end of the second year. > The forum is currently on pace to at least match that level of traffic, > possibly exceed it. > > I do not feel the forums and mailing list need to be synchronized. They are > two different mediums, and should be treated as such. Certain bits of data > can be shared, as forum entries have been mentioned on the mailing list and > mailing list messages/threads have been mentioned on the forum. > > Just my 2¢ worth.
I did just find this for vBulletin. It doesn't support vBulletin 4, but we could probably update it, if it isn't being worked on already: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151222 --- Eric Crist
