#68689 - 2002-07-29 07:16 PM
Board effectiveness
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Howard Bullock
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-09-15
Posts: 5809
Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA
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Based on the membership growth of this board, I think we can conclude that the use of KiXtart is extremely widespread and growing. I also have noticed what appears to be a steady decline in new posts. (MCA, do the board stats confirm this trend?)
Since the more people are using the product and we get the occasional question about UDF use, I have concluded that we regulars have almost worked ourselves out of the daily KiXtart support job. The FAQ section and UDF library probably have been more successful than anyone would have thought. And combined with the extensive posts to the message sections, this board is quite the reference library. (MCA, are there any page stats that could provide info regarding UDF, FAQ, and message read hits vs. new posts?)
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#68693 - 2002-07-29 08:09 PM
Re: Board effectiveness
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Shawn
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Registered: 1999-08-13
Posts: 8611
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Jim,
No - I haven't seen AP3, but from what I hear (overheard on commuter train) ... its great - in fact, its better than AP1 & AP2 ... VERY SHAGADELIC MAN !!!
Im pretty much dedicated to Kixforms right now and probably for rest of year ![[Wink]](images/icons/wink.gif) Kixforms TNG is "almost" ready for release ... if your interested, Ill shoot you over the current ALPHA version ... im still working on the IMAGING side of things (pictures,icons,cursors,etc) ... got the combobox and mouseicon thingy going ... let me know if you want to try it out... but not ready for primetime (quite) yet.
-Shawn
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#68696 - 2002-07-29 08:49 PM
Re: Board effectiveness
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear,
Howard, the amount of members is still growing. In our opinion the amount of old
questions is becoming in a steady decline, which has to deal with the great amount of
interesting topics on the FAQ forum and the well documented UDFs on UDFs forums.
The board statistics doesn't confirm your trend. Only in some months an enormous amount
of new topics were entering. Also a new trend is that some topics gets an enormous
amount of reactions.
Also we think that everybody likes that it isn't necessary always to answer the same
(beginner) questions. Now the goeroes can use their time to new capabilities of
kixtart or the board (f.e. kixforms & bbchecker).
It is really a pity, that it isn't possible to see read hits. We have put a question
about it on the "Infopop" board.
Les, we shouldn't forget that a great amount of people are enjoying there holidays.
Previous year we got also such quiet period. Currently each month there are above
400 new entries per month.
At the beginning we new about 1.5 years for 2500 new entries. This year we need less
than a half year for it.
Indeed we see also a higher level of topic contents. The newbies will point to the
FAQ and UDFs first, which prevents answering the same question again and
again and the possible mistypings can be fixed with f.e. kixstrip and all kind
of other tools.
greetings.
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#68697 - 2002-07-29 09:41 PM
Re: Board effectiveness
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear,
Some additional info about UBB:
This weekend a new release of UBB.classic see the daylight. Release 6.3.1
Interesting links are
UBB.Classic release notes
UBB.Classic features notes
Infopop comparison
The second URL shows
- enable or turn off HTML in messages per forum
- rebuild of forum stat files/search index/member stat files
The latest URL shows what we are missing
- attachments
- advanced search
- content ratings
- reply notifications for all members. this board version replies to Topic Starter only.
greetings.
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#68699 - 2002-07-30 01:07 AM
Re: Board effectiveness
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear Jack,
Indeed at the same time the goeroes are working mostly at the same problem. The bene-
fits for the topic starters: he can choose the best solution for his environment.
The impact of the current moderators makes this board more valuable. They give newbie
tips about entering their requests and reformat subject and contents in a more readable
format. A better subject description influences also the speed and the way a request
will be solved. More readable by using [code] and [/code] makes script for comment
easier to read.
The current discussion deals also about reducing 'unwanted' work for the board.
greetings.
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#68701 - 2002-07-30 03:20 AM
Re: Board effectiveness
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear Les,
Yes, we recognize how it can be interpretated. A better word is experts.
greetings.
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#68702 - 2002-07-30 03:47 AM
Re: Board effectiveness
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NTDOC
Administrator
Registered: 2000-07-28
Posts: 11634
Loc: Space
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MCA,
I think Les is just trying to have fun and joke with you.
See this link...
Will the REAL GuRu please stand up
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#68704 - 2002-07-30 04:50 AM
Re: Board effectiveness
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear,
The way you can interpretate words can be very different. Mostly it is also based on the
words in your own language.
A nice example is the word stamp: a stamp for a letter or a trading stamp from the shop.
A lot of people in our country loves so much trading stamps, that when we are talking
about stamps we are meaning trading stamps.
We are always using the word postage stamps for letters.
Same thing we discover with the France language: "timbre" and "timbre-poste".
Also you will find differences between Belgium and the Neterlands in using words. Netherland
is using more words from other languages instead of creating an own one. Belgium is very creative
in it.
greetings.
btw: the dictionary link is a very good one. mostly we are looking in the Oxford or Webster
dictionaries.
[ 30 July 2002, 04:52: Message edited by: MCA ]
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#68705 - 2002-07-31 12:31 AM
Re: Board effectiveness
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MCA
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
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Dear Howard,
We get following answer back from Infopop about the availibility
of read hits:
There are no topic view count features available in UBB.classic. That
feature is available in all of our other message board products, how-
ever (UBB.threads, UBB.x, and OpenTopic). We cannot include that fea-
ture in UBB.classic simply because the architecture of the applica-
tion will not support it (that is a fancy way of saying that because
UBB.classic is a flat-file system, any boards that are of even mode-
rate size would suffer in terms of performance if we added this fea-
ture).
Ted O'Neill
CEO, Infopop Corporation
greetings.
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#68706 - 2002-07-31 12:56 AM
Re: Board effectiveness
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Howard Bullock
KiX Supporter
Registered: 2000-09-15
Posts: 5809
Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA
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MCA, thanks for following up.
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