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bonsai is not my hobby
Join Date: Oct-2001
Location: Egling, south of Munich
Country: Germany
Posts: 1,450
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I cannot see membership at IBC and other forums besides two new ones going up. As we know the number of 'members' does not say much. While I do not have statistical data of forums it is not so difficult to get a picture for yourself. Just look at the varios sections where the threads are listd and then look at the hit rates. Some threads have higher, some have very high hit rates. These you forget, because it is the same people going there several times and thus raising the hit rate. Go to threads where there is a lower number. This is about the number of unique viewers, since normally no one wil look at a thread twice if nothing happens there. The numbers at IBC and most other forums besides two are going down drastically. Most threads in the general section only have a couple hundred users. They used to get over a thousand some time ago.
For my own homepage I do have statistics. This is amazing. I now have about 300 to 400 UNIQUE users every day. That makes it more than 10,000 per month and more than 100,000 per year. That is MORE than most forums have where something is going on every hour. And a year ago this number was only half of that. Now take away the robots that are searching the net on a routine and take away those that have stumbled onto the page accidentally. so maybe 50,000 unique people are visitng a bonsai homepage!in a year. A homepage where nothing is going on other than seeing bonsai in a gallery which I update only every six months or so.
So you are telling me that the interest in bonsai on the net is going down? I think the interest in forums in general is going ddown. Who wants to read all that? I don't much anymore. My interst in bonsai on the internet is not going down. I only want quality contents.
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