Now the IET have been up and running with Wiring and the Regulations BS 7671 on the new forum software for a bit, I see that some interesting stats are emerging - for example the number of topics vs the no of posts. This is surprisingly constant about ten to one, on all the fora, except the 'ask the community' which it seems a question is about half as likely to get an answer, which I think is rather sad and given the title, kind of ironic..
Then in the individual categories, the replies to views ratio, this is noticeably higher, about 20:1 rising to more like 50:1 for some catchy titles.
Compared to the old place we did not know the number of 'views', but the average replies per topic ratio was generally higher, suggesting we have suffered a bit of a hit in discussion intensity, but maybe it is early days.
old forum
(this should open a new window and not lose this one)
Ignoring the end of days on the old forum, where it was being shut down and getting a bit shambolic with posts of 'is it still working ?', and going back a month or so from there we used to have folk kicking off typically 3-4 topics per day mid week, and 5-6 at weekends. We seem to be doing mid week at the weekend rate in the new place, suggesting more activity. On this platform we seem to be getting less of the ' I'm new here and have a funny problem ' type posts, but that sort of traffic may be happening elsewhere or maybe potential new jpiners are put off if looks like you need to be an IET member to join in, which you don't - I'm not for example.
I think the transition has broadly gone OK so far - what do others think?
