What about an 'active users' statistic? As Blizeh says, his is getting smaller but since none of the users will be deleted noone would get that impression. You could take a count of all users who'd logged in over the last day/week/month?
Wow, I go to sleep, wake up, and find my thread stickied! (Still no more forums added to the site's database, though...)
@ADM: That would be helpful, but how would it get the tags? It seems like it would be overcomplicating things to have user-submitted tags, because then I'd have to add user registration and all that, and having forum owners choose tags could be too limiting and abusable. Maybe it could hook into something like del.icio.us and see what people are tagging it with there.
@blizeH and Minisweeper: Good idea about the "active users" statistic. Maybe I'll add that in the next version of the extension.
@LooZ^: Why did you need to install the new .htaccess? Did you overwrite it with the outdated Friendly URLs extension .htaccess like bjrn did?
Perhaps I'll integrate it with del.icio.us. It'll get tag information for each forum, and it'll provide a link for each one to bookmark it on del.icio.us and add your own tags. Thoughts?
I'd still really like to see stat info on extensions, I think this would provide an incredibly useful amount of information. It would also provide a good argument for packaging certian extensions together in pack etc.
wow, didn't expect to make it straight to the top 3
very nice extension/site! let's hope more of the big vanilla sites out there join in - by the way, where's lussumo.com/community ?
lussumo.com/community isn't listed there yet because Mark would have to install the extension. I think he's on vacation. Maybe he'll install it when he gets back!
I'm also adding some overall statistics about the Vanilla world. To get it started, I made a pie graph of the Vanilla versions in use. Once our data set is larger, these graphs could have plenty of uses... for example, for extension authors who are trying to decide how backward-compatible they need to be.
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By the way, shouldn't this discussion be stickied in order to attract more people?
@ADM: That would be helpful, but how would it get the tags? It seems like it would be overcomplicating things to have user-submitted tags, because then I'd have to add user registration and all that, and having forum owners choose tags could be too limiting and abusable. Maybe it could hook into something like del.icio.us and see what people are tagging it with there.
@blizeH and Minisweeper: Good idea about the "active users" statistic. Maybe I'll add that in the next version of the extension.
@LooZ^: Why did you need to install the new .htaccess? Did you overwrite it with the outdated Friendly URLs extension .htaccess like bjrn did?
Now that I've checked the WP plugins, there are a couple that add meta information. Would this be useful?
does it matter that my forum is not publicly browseable? i have 669 members and 3333 discussions. the forum is at sffixed.com, and i am running 1.0.3