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Christmas Forum Stats Updates

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  • #152
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Loughc wrote: »
    As it stands we are not too far behind the number of posts for the full month of March 19, it seems in the craziest of times we really need Christmas cheer more than ever!

    Reckon we'll smash those figures this month, especially if a large amount of regulars are stuck at home.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #153
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Reckon we'll smash those figures this month, especially if a large amount of regulars are stuck at home.

    Also once the novelty of the current situation starts to wear off, I think people will be back posting on a broader range of topics.


  • #154
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Also once the novelty of the current situation starts to wear off, I think people will be back posting on a broader range of topics.

    True. It seems everything else in the world has stopped with little else being discussed.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #155
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    It's actually hard to remember (Brexit) what we actually talked about before all this!


  • #156
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    So LoughC, how did we end up for posts in March?
    I'm craving a stats update :D
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • #157
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    So LoughC, how did we end up for posts in March?
    I'm craving a stats update :D

    Fingers cross for some Friday afternoon good news :)


  • #158
    Griselda
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 54 ✭✭Griselda


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Fingers cross for some Friday afternoon good news :)

    cant wait.


  • #159
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    DvB wrote: »
    So LoughC, how did we end up for posts in March?
    I'm craving a stats update :D

    Sorry man busy day at the home office and real office!!

    I will get to it first thing Monday :)


  • #160
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Loughc wrote: »
    Sorry man busy day at the home office and real office!!

    I will get to it first thing Monday :)

    Ah here, no rush at all, just curious is all, enjoy the weekend!!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #161
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    So March 2020 ended up with 74 posts more than March 2019 :)

    Q1 20 is now 270 posts ahead of Q1 19.

    Up but considering what's happening that makes sense why March was such a hit.


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  • #162
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    So March 2020 ended up with 74 posts more than March 2019 :)

    Q1 20 is now 270 posts ahead of Q1 19.

    Up but considering what's happening that makes sense why March was such a hit.

    Thanks Loughc; great to hear :)


  • #163
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Interestingly April 19 was our quietest month last year, early posts indications I can see April 20 surpassing April 19 easily and it may not even be the quietest month this year.

    I imagine once lockdown is over we'll all be fleeing from the laptops, tablets and phones! :)


  • #164
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Loughc wrote: »
    Interestingly April 19 was our quietest month last year, early posts indications I can see April 20 surpassing April 19 easily and it may not even be the quietest month this year.

    I imagine once lockdown is over we'll all be fleeing from the laptops, tablets and phones! :)

    Think April will look after itself so :D May make a serious move up the league table in fact.

    Have to admit with WFH I've been popping in to the older threads a good bit again as I always said they're a great cheer up tool. Got some real good laughs & bangs of nostalgia reading back through the old stuff. I know its only April but last Christmas feels so long ago now that I'm having no problems revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #165
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    DvB wrote: »
    Think April will look after itself so :D May make a serious move up the league table in fact.

    Have to admit with WFH I've been popping in to the older threads a good bit again as I always said they're a great cheer up tool. Got some real good laughs & bangs of nostalgia reading back through the old stuff. I know its only April but last Christmas feels so long ago now that I'm having no problems revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past!

    With everything that’s happening February feels like a lifetime ago!


  • #166
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I think the glorious weather and the lockdown will work against us this month, people seem to be itching to get away from their phones during these recent times and who can blame them, especially in this weather, but as the saying goes lets make hay while the sun shines! :)


  • #167
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Loughc wrote: »
    I think the glorious weather and the lockdown will work against us this month, people seem to be itching to get away from their phones during these recent times and who can blame them, especially in this weather, but as the saying goes lets make hay while the sun shines! :)

    I sense a challenge...
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #168
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Though agree the forum is clearly the quietest its been in a long time.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #169
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Though agree the forum is clearly the quietest its been in a long time.

    Yep, more surprised when there is a new post when I check these days then when there isn't!


  • #170
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Yep, more surprised when there is a new post when I check these days then when there isn't!

    I check in here regularly, I find reading back over old threads quite therapeutic when my heads in need of some 'calm'

    I can never quite muster the will to listen to christmas music or watch christmas films out of season but love reading back over posts from previous years & seeing the build up gather excitement etc. Its brilliant to have that to fall back on.

    Being a nostalgic old sod I love this forum.:)
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #171
    TRS30
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    DvB wrote: »
    I check in here regularly, I find reading back over old threads quite therapeutic when my heads in need of some 'calm'

    I can never quite muster the will to listen to christmas music or watch christmas films out of season but love reading back over posts from previous years & seeing the build up gather excitement etc. Its brilliant to have that to fall back on.

    Being a nostalgic old sod I love this forum.:)

    Started to do this myself a couple of weeks ago and then work just took over so if not working I'm trying to help my wife with the kids.

    She is back to work (from home as well) on Monday so will have even less time in here :(


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  • #172
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    So we ended up April 32 posts more than April last year. Which is really good going as there's been nothing normal about April!

    We are now 302 posts up on last year for the 1st 4 months of the year.


  • #173
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    So we ended up April 32 posts more than April last year. Which is really good going as there's been nothing normal about April!

    We are now 302 posts up on last year for the 1st 4 months of the year.

    Take that Covid-19, not even a pandemic can slow us down :D


  • #174
    DvB
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    Loughc wrote: »


    We are now 302 posts up on last year for the 1st 4 months of the year.

    over 300 posts up, wow! 2020 has the makings of a bumper year so.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #175
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    DvB wrote: »
    over 300 posts up, wow! 2020 has the makings of a bumper year so.

    We'll have to see, we all could be massively fatigued by the end of this year.

    It's also important to point out last year May had 125 posts more than April last year. As it stands we are already well behind for May. I have no idea why May last year was so popular, April and June were quiet but that's expected.


  • #176
    DvB
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    Loughc wrote: »
    We'll have to see, we all could be massively fatigued by the end of this year.

    It's also important to point out last year May had 125 posts more than April last year. As it stands we are already well behind for May. I have no idea why May last year was so popular, April and June were quiet but that's expected.

    I'd be hopeful we'll be excited for christmas come the end of the year as the rest of it will have been such a disappointment. But yeah, a lot can change in a short time, as we have all seen in the last 6 or 7 weeks.

    May does seem quieter so far to be fair. As I'm up at my desk at home I dont have to set an example to others with respect to internet usage during work hours so pop in here every day, and its clearly eased off in terms of volume of posts.

    Great to see a stats update though, I had only been thinking about it earlier today too.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #177
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    As it stands we are already well behind for May. I have no idea why May last year was so popular, April and June were quiet but that's expected.

    Could be the good weather the last few days and Boards was playing up so people not bothering to wait for posts to load.

    Last May was probably people on talking about their summer holiday plans and the 'Know your Elves' threads use to generate a fair bit of traffic as well.


  • #178
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Take that Covid-19, not even a pandemic can slow us down :D
    Aren't we great? :D
    TRS30 wrote: »
    Last May was probably people on talking about their summer holiday plans
    Waaaaaaaaaaaah!


  • #179
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    So hows the merry month of May go for us here at the Christmas forum LoughC?
    I'd be amazed if we were anything other than down on preivous years, seemed v.quiet in here for long spells last month.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #180
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    So hows the merry month of May go for us here at the Christmas forum LoughC?
    I'd be amazed if we were anything other than down on preivous years, seemed v.quiet in here for long spells last month.

    While I agree it has seemed v quiet lets hope for some inverted logic where there was actually more posts then last year even though it seemed quieter!

    We've been on such a good run of late........


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  • #181
    DvB
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    TRS30 wrote: »
    While I agree it has seemed v quiet lets hope for some inverted logic where there was actually more posts then last year even though it seemed quieter!

    We've been on such a good run of late........

    I know what you mean, but being working from home it feels like I've been in here every day mon-fri & I dont remember ever logging on to find a flurry of posts, but hopefully I'm wrong & we kept our good run going.

    Though with the good weather and so many people not working you can understand people being less inclined to pop in.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #182
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    The bad news is we were behind on May 2019 by 54 posts.

    The good news, we are significantly ahead for the year in total, we destroyed May 2018 & 2017 and we have all survived the lockdown :)

    I'm happy with the result I think giving what was happening and the lovely weather things were always going to be down.

    But regards of stats we will always be here 365 days of the year! :)


  • #183
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Loughc wrote: »
    But regards of stats we will always be here 365 days of the year! :)
    Yep. :D


  • #184
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    But regards of stats we will always be here 365 days of the year! :)

    24/7 as our friends across the pond like to say :D

    Not too surprised about been down slightly posts wise however all things considered is still dam good and we can catch that back up with one well place post about Die Hard or Christmas Shoes :P


  • #185
    DvB
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    Only down 54 posts is a much better total than I had expected, and still ahead for the year as a whole is great news, if we can get all this lockdown & restrictions business behind us we could end up having a cracker of a christmas build up yet!!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #186
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Just looking at some random stats this morning and it seems to no surprise that Monday is now the most popular day of the week for posts.

    What is surprising is Thursday is now the second most popular day for posting!

    For some reason i had it in my head Tuesday would have been next.


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  • #187
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Thursday is random. I wouldn't have thought that. :/


  • #188
    TRS30
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    Yea, Monday I get but Thursday is a bit random :confused:


  • #189
    DvB
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    I check in here Mon-Fri unless I'm out on site all day... can't say I notice much of a difference TBH, though sometimes Friday does seems quieter.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #190
    Loughc
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    DvB wrote: »
    I check in here Mon-Fri unless I'm out on site all day... can't say I notice much of a difference TBH, though sometimes Friday does seems quieter.

    Saturday is the quietest day of our week, which makes sense for many people it's the first day to unwind and relax from it all.

    Sundays to me always remind me of Christmas, I think that was from growing up in an era where places used to close on a Sunday similar to Christmas.


  • #191
    DvB
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    Loughc wrote: »
    Saturday is the quietest day of our week, which makes sense for many people it's the first day to unwind and relax from it all.

    Sundays to me always remind me of Christmas, I think that was from growing up in an era where places used to close on a Sunday similar to Christmas.

    Makes sense, I know I only check in the odd time at weekends as usually am away from the pc & don't really like posting from the phone.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • #192
    TRS30
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    Loughc wrote: »
    Saturday is the quietest day of our week, which makes sense for many people it's the first day to unwind and relax from it all.

    Sundays to me always remind me of Christmas, I think that was from growing up in an era where places used to close on a Sunday similar to Christmas.

    Well I certainly don't add to the total over the weekend. Weekends are my online free time.

    I have a vague recollection of a priest or minister giving off when supermarkets started opening on a Sunday up North. Seems strange to now to think that a lot of places wouldn't open on a Sunday.


  • #193
    Jude13
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    Sunday is the first day of the week for me so I see what's occured whilst I have been away. Thursday I am signing off for the week. I rarely look at the weekend.


  • #194
    Loughc
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    So we ended up June 32 posts ahead of last year for the month and we are now 280 posts ahead of last year for the first 6 months of the year.

    Good going everyone, no doubt the lack of Summer travel is contributing to the upturn for June :)


  • #195
    TRS30
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    Loughc wrote: »
    So we ended up June 32 posts ahead of last year for the month and we are now 280 posts ahead of last year for the first 6 months of the year.

    Good going everyone, no doubt the lack of Summer travel is contributing to the upturn for June :)

    Great to see we are back in the black as they say and that we erased half of the May deficit!

    Definitely felt busier the last couple of weeks, especially at the start of the week.


  • #196
    TRS30
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    How did July go boss??


  • #197
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    TRS30 wrote: »
    How did July go boss??

    We ended up the month 67 posts ahead of last year.

    We are now 347 posts ahead of last year up to the end of July.

    July was a fantastic month, again a lot of it was down to people being stuck here and not getting to go away on holidays.


  • #198
    TRS30
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    Loughc wrote: »
    We ended up the month 67 posts ahead of last year.

    We are now 347 posts ahead of last year up to the end of July.

    July was a fantastic month, again a lot of it was down to people being stuck here and not getting to go away on holidays.

    Great news. I'm jumping on any positive these days, no matter how small :)


  • #199
    DvB
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    Loughc wrote: »
    We ended up the month 67 posts ahead of last year.

    We are now 347 posts ahead of last year up to the end of July.

    July was a fantastic month, again a lot of it was down to people being stuck here and not getting to go away on holidays.

    Thats just shy of 50 extra posts a month on average, great stuff.
    Genuinely believe we'll have a bumper year on here as with all the misery out in the real world here is a great port to take refuge in...
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #200
    TRS30
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    DvB wrote: »
    Genuinely believe we'll have a bumper year on here as with all the misery out in the real world here is a great port to take refuge in...

    I purposely didn't log in when I was away as I knew this morning would be horrible logging back to work and coming in here was something to really look forward to.


  • #201
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    We have now passed 4,000 posts for the year, surpassing 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011 totals for their respective years.

    Monday is now the most popular day of the week for posts, with Thursday coming in 2nd and Wednesday a close 3rd.

    Monday has pushed ahead by 62 posts. A surprising turnaround.


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