As the heading says, Can you let Nairalanders know if there has been an increase in traffic or the other way round to the NL since the upgrade? Some topics that should have elicited high response rates are observed to be otherwise. Any comment on this?

Do you seriously expect an answer to such question from Seun?


Well lemme give you an idea, the average number of people online from the home page is about the same with both NL1 and NL2. So the traffic is about the same.

NL1 is history now, NL2 can only get better. Get used to it.

Traffic up, engagement down. There are one or two old features which, if re-implemented, will really help.

E-mail notifications would work wonders.

naptu2: E-mail notifications would work wonders.

E-mail notifications re-implemented! The new approach avoids clogging your inbox with e-mails.

OAM4J: Do you seriously expect an answer to such question from Seun?


Well lemme give you an idea, the average number of people online from the home page is about the same with both NL1 and NL2. So the traffic is about the same.

NL1 is history now, NL2 can only get better. Get used to it.

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since seun and his nairaland do not value constructive criticism i pray that a bitter rival forum emerges to give nairaland a run, a fall and a disappearance from the scene

the average number of people online from the home page is about the same with both NL1 and NL2. So the traffic is about the same.

nl is a few thousand members short of a million now.

I project the site will most likely have 1 million members possibly by the end of the year.

I suspect the majority of the 870,000+ user ids are probably bots of some sort and not necessarily real people.

a lot of the ids are also multiple ones from the same user/s.

so, there's a method to getting this "high traffic".


compare nl to other (nationality-based) boards like boards.ie for example, and you'll find even though the site has more topics, sections and boards than nl, it's membership is only about half or a third the size of nl.

also check out immigration board for instance

http://forums.immigration.com/forum.php

210,000+ members and 303586 threads.

compared to nl which has 837,000+ members and 837879 threads.

The thread count is equal to the number of members. There's something weird about that.



here's another example


http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/


members 83,000+, threads 33,110.

thread count is lower than total number of members.

@tpia@

Interest statistics worth studying, but has nothing to do with the emergence of NL2.

The OP concern is that the introduction of NL2 might have caused a reduction in traffic, but Seun just confirmed my suspicion that the traffic is growing in the contrary.

^ my point was the traffic is the same as it's always been.

namely its linked to some form of autobots which automatically maintain the traffic flow.


I've been checking the traffic since the site was switched to nl2 and saw nothing to suggest otherwise.

oh ok.

@tpia: I don't get paid based on the number of registered users on the site, you know. It's just an impressive statistic that's easy to compute. All other discussion forums have the same bot issues we have, so if they have a smaller number of registered accounts, it means they also have a smaller user base. NL2 is actually stricter than NL1 because it does email account verification before allowing people to create accounts, so it doesn't count unverified registrations. Your accusations are without basis, wrong, and insulting.

^^not sure why you consider observations, accusations.

nobody accused you of anything- reread my posts one more time.


the site gets new members almost at the rate of one per minute [give or take] and this has been consistent for a while and didnt change even when you switched to the new interface.

so, it stands to reason there's an automated program involved using algorithms or some sort of loop system, to boost the numbers. Nothing to get personal or offended about, and feel free to prove me wrong- no biggie.


@ topic: lipstick alley statistics. From the site:

Lipstick Alley Statistics:


Lipstick Alley has 58,391 members, (25,352 active members) and we welcomed 1759 new members this month, a change of +14% compared to february.


The forum contains 333,732 threaded discussions.

the site gets new members almost at the rate of one per minute [give or take] and this has been consistent for a while and didnt change even when you switched to the new interface.

So? It just demonstrates that people don't register on Nairaland in order to enjoy the interface. They register to enjoy and interact with the content, and since new Nairaland did not change the content of Nairaland, the registration rate could not have changed. Also, any reduced usage by PC users would have been counterbalanced by increased mobile usage. The comparison with Western forums is irrelevant; you should be comparing us with other Nigerian Forums that target Nigerians living in Nigeria. Use common sense.

I think there are fewer nos of posts unlike before.
Maybe i'm wrong but in the old Nl, it's quite difficult to see a post twice when the recent posts is reloaded.

Seun:
So? It just demonstrates that people don't register on Nairaland in order to enjoy the interface. They register to enjoy and interact with the content, and since new Nairaland did not change the content of Nairaland, the registration rate could not have changed. Also, any reduced usage by PC users would have been counterbalanced by increased mobile usage. The comparison with Western forums is irrelevant; you should be comparing us with other Nigerian Forums that target Nigerians living in Nigeria. Use common sense.

i think you personally would be better off analyzing other forums like boards.ie and finding features that could improve the user experience on nl.


dont just be all gragra because you feel nl seems to be the main forum where nigerians congregate for now.

remember the parable of the hare and the tortoise.

resting on past glory can be inane sometimes, and leads to complacency.

One thing is certain for now, I think so long as upgrading to the new NL enables more contextual mobile ads just as a quick transition trend from desktop access to mobile is the in thing now, Seun has it all going welllll for him. The way people access the internet is changing and so should NL

I have 6 diff i.ds, does dat help the argument