The post is cross-posted from http://www.daikonforge.com/webtab/2007/09/09/how-many-people-use-csi/
This is a question I like to ask (and answer) frequently. When I started with C:SI, there were about 4,500 unique users in the duel database. Even as recently as July 29th of this year, there were only 9,271 users. As of right this moment, there are
That’s an increase of 1,549 users in just about a month and a half!
I’ve mentioned before how much I like data (I’m such a geek), but the only thing better than raw data is live data, so today I decided that I would take advantage of my new blog theme’s very easy integration of Sidebar Modules to create a live data feed indicating how many people have used C:SI at any given time. The entire process took less than an hour, from adding support for the data feed to the C:SI website to coding the sidebar module and adding it to my blog.
If you are viewing this blog directly rather than from inside the Second Life profile Web tab or an RSS reader, then you will see on the right side panel of my blog that there is an up-to-date count of how many people have used C:SI, how many duels they’ve fought, and how many different sims they’ve fought in:
It’s currently set up so that the data is only retrieved from the source once per hour, so that my desire for live – and essentially useless but personally interesting – statistics does not add significantly to the load of our score database.
I’m now starting to wonder if I should be tracking data like the number of new users per day or month and throwing that in a pretty graph. On the other hand, I have enough projects already, and not nearly enough time to do them in.
