<font size=3 face="Arial">Looking at it from the other angle, there appear
to have been ~100 threads with replies made to them in the "Help"
section of the forum in March and about the same number for February. So
the increase in the GIS.Stackexchange seems to coincide with the former
usage of the forums with Nathan's stats.</font><br><br><font size=3 face="Arial">For another (probably more important) metric:</font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"> On average
about 20-30% of the threads in that forum didn't get any replies at all.
How many of the GIS.Stackexchange questions are actually being answered?
There appear to be 88 tagged unanswered QGIS questions:</font><br><a href=http://gis.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/qgis><font size=3 face="Arial">http://gis.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/qgis</font></a><br><br><font size=3 face="Arial">Jonathan</font><br><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo@gmail.com></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Nick Hopton <nhopton@gmail.com></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">09/05/2012 10:22</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [Qgis-user]
Re: Closure of forum, one month on.</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><font size=3>So the stats are in for March, April, and some of May,
using the query </font><a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/gis/query/68778/how-many-posts-per-month-for-a-tag?TagName=qgis"><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://data.stackexchange.com/gis/query/68778/how-many-posts-per-month-for-a-tag?TagName=qgis</u></font></a><br><br><font size=3>The results are:</font><br><br><font size=3>02-2012 = </font><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Verdana">346</font><br><font size=3>03-2012 = 400</font><br><font size=3>04-2012 = </font><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Verdana">556</font><br><font size=3>05-2012 = </font><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Verdana">596</font><br><br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Verdana">Some pretty sharp increases
there. </font><br><br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Verdana">- Nathan</font><br><br><font size=3>On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nick Hopton <</font><a href=mailto:nhopton@gmail.com target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>nhopton@gmail.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
wrote:</font><br><font size=3>In the last month of its existence about 130 new topics
were created on the<br>forum. It appears that during the same period about 54 new topics tagged<br>'QGIS' were created on Stack Exchange (SE) GIS. It is of course obvious
that<br>there has been an increase in QGIS questions on SE following the closure
of<br>the forum, but I think it is unlikely that all, or possibly even most,
of<br>the people who used to post on the forum have shifted to SE. However, for<br>obvious reasons there can be no firm evidence to support this proposition;<br>usage statistics are not enough.<br><br>I wish it well and I'm sure that QGIS at SE will suit many of the more<br>experienced QGIS users very nicely, but I'm also sure it will also put
off<br>many newcomers and less experienced users who need a friendly place of
first<br>contact where they can ask their questions. But that's enough, I seem to
be<br>a lone voice in this discussion so I won't push things any further.<br><br>Nick.<br><br>--<br>View this message in context: </font><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Closure-of-forum-one-month-on-tp4945755p4948730.html" target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Closure-of-forum-one-month-on-tp4945755p4948730.html</u></font></a><br><font size=3>Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive
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