DreamHost Discussion Forum 6 Years Today
DreamHost Discussion Forum turns 6 years today and like last year I’m going to use the opportunity to publish some stats from the forums.
General stats:
In 6 years the forum have had 78,067 posts, in 15,824 threads, submitted by 9,834 registered users (plus countless of anonymous users). The forum has grown considerably the last year with more than 6,000 threads and 34,000 new posts. Also a big welcome to the more than 4,000 new registered users.
Posts Per Month
Active Threads Per Month
Active Users Per Month
Most active boards:
| Posts | Threads | Board |
|---|---|---|
| 35664 | 7431 | General Troubleshooting |
| 11345 | 1626 | Curious About DreamHost? |
| 9566 | 2114 | Beginner’s Forum |
| 7097 | 1910 | 3rd Party Software & Scripts |
| 6960 | 1656 | Programming |
| 3512 | 324 | Offtopic Discussion |
| 1477 | 269 | Web Design |
| 927 | 142 | * Beta Testing * |
| 582 | 143 | Multimedia |
| 522 | 152 | E-Commerce |
| 415 | 58 | Promotion |
Most active boards (last 12 months):
| Posts | Threads | Board |
|---|---|---|
| 15021 | 2928 | General Troubleshooting |
| 6455 | 727 | Curious About DreamHost? |
| 4125 | 840 | Beginner’s Forum |
| 2881 | 682 | Programming |
| 2650 | 740 | 3rd Party Software & Scripts |
| 1685 | 95 | Offtopic Discussion |
| 458 | 89 | Web Design |
| 323 | 87 | Multimedia |
| 263 | 15 | * Beta Testing * |
| 233 | 27 | Promotion |
| 85 | 30 | E-Commerce |
General Troubleshooting, Curious About DreamHost? and Beginner’s Forum continues to be the most popular forums, while Beta Testing, Promotion and E-Commerce remains pretty dead.
Most active users (all-time):
| Posts | Username | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2691 | rlparker | DH DreamMaster! |
| 2556 | Raz2133 | DH DreamMaster! |
| 2128 | matttail | DH DreamMaster! |
| 2077 | scjessey | DH DreamMaster! |
| 2000 | ardco | DH DreamMaster! |
| 1941 | will | DH Pooh-Bah |
| 1349 | Anonymous | |
| 1126 | wholly | DH DreamNinja |
| 995 | Atropos7 | DH DreamNinja |
| 984 | norm1037 | DH DreamNinja |
Most active users (last 12 months):
| Posts | Username | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2484 | rlparker | DH DreamMaster! |
| 2221 | Raz2133 | DH DreamMaster! |
| 1177 | scjessey | DH DreamMaster! |
| 1118 | wholly | DH DreamNinja |
| 932 | nathan823 | DH DreamNinja |
| 820 | sdayman | DH DreamNinja |
| 745 | norm1037 | DH DreamNinja |
| 706 | seiler | DH DreamNinja |
| 678 | matttail | DH DreamMaster! |
| 532 | anonymous2 | DH Grizzled Veteran |
rlparker and Raz2133 have both written more than 2000 post the last 12 months, which brings them right to the top on the all time Most Active Users chart. wholly and norm1037 are also newcomers on the the chart.
Most active threads (all-time):
| Posts | Thread | Started by | Started on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1035 | DreamHost Word Association Redux | scjessey | 01/20/07 |
| 322 | DreamHost Word Association | wjd | 05/21/05 |
| 123 | Everything slow? | feldmahler | 02/21/06 |
| 116 | Is anyone still having problems? | 614mike | 07/24/06 |
| 98 | Question for Administrator | Athlon1600 | 12/16/06 |
| 94 | I’m Just Leaving…to HostMonster.Com | DABEAR | 01/12/07 |
| 90 | SEO basics? | brighthearted | 10/15/06 |
| 84 | Questions about the fax thing… | gasparov | 11/02/06 |
| 84 | Anyone else notice sites going down? | BrandonOBrien | 09/08/06 |
| 82 | Files Forever! | Josh | 10/03/06 |
| 82 | Getting Lost in Tech Support | Blue | 10/14/06 |
| 76 | Policy on affiliate links…? | Jeff @ DreamHost | 04/05/05 |
| 75 | Server Slow? | schweb | 01/05/05 |
| 75 | APC installed on Dreamhost? It was done… | TECK | 06/12/06 |
| 73 | panel6.dreamhost.com | Josh | 02/28/07 |
| 68 | Beta-testing email logins using address! | nate | 05/29/06 |
| 65 | Favorite Browsers 2005ed | sierko | 03/18/05 |
| 65 | Domain Hijackers ? | Father Luke | 03/25/05 |
| 62 | Dreamhost, you are a terrible host | Evan | 01/08/07 |
| 61 | Scheduling posts on MT | willdex | 11/25/06 |
14 of top 20 most active threads has been created within the last 12 months. As always a bit of controversy creates the longest threads…
Congratulations to all the forum users, and let us hope that the next year will bring as many helpful, interesting and controversial discussions as we’re used to!
April 19th, 2007 at 01:34
I don’t use the forums that much. I don’t like the design. I think they once talked about switching to another software, didn’t they?
April 19th, 2007 at 02:22
I would really like another forum too – like vBulletin og phpBB. I think this would be great for all customers – and Dreamhost – since the forum would be used more (and the support team could relax a little more).
April 19th, 2007 at 06:21
That’s funny. My doctor has always told me I’m nowhere near active enough.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:21
rlparker FTW!
April 19th, 2007 at 15:57
That’s a great piece of reporting work, and very interesting. I knew I had answered quite a few posts, but I had no idea it had been that many! 8-). Thanks for compiling that information.
April 19th, 2007 at 16:47
o_O
Anyhow, I personally would love to use bbPress instead.. but I don’t see us replacing forums that we built ourselves in perl, with somebody else’s php-based solution. This company has its pride (and prejudices. grin.)
April 20th, 2007 at 16:19
Huh! I’ve just been informed by one of the honchos that we didn’t build that forum software ourselves. I was mistaken!
April 21st, 2007 at 01:14
Pete V:
I actually went looking for that forum software a couple of times (via the link in the forum FAQ). Several years ago, the perl version was available, but wasn’t “free” – recently, that link in the FAQ takes you to a site that has a “free” forum that looks a “little similar”, but it is written in PHP and is clearly *not* the same code.
It looks like you guys have a true “antique” piece of software!
April 21st, 2007 at 02:16
The forum software is WWWThreads original available from wwwthreads.com.
WWWThreads was started in 1997 and existed in both a PHP and a Perl version. The price for a personal, non-profit license was $100 and commercial licence was $200.
In November 2001 the company was bought by Infopop and the forum software was renamed to Ultimate Bulletin Board or UBBThreads (PHP only).
Infopop was later renamed to Groupee and changed focus to be a blogging platform. At the same time UBB.threads was moved to UBBcentral.com, where it still exists today.
I’m not sure that the software that now exists on wwwthreads.com has anything to do with the software the DreamHost Discussion Forum is running.