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By NaX on
I would like to know what is the growth rate of the drupal.org community. When I joined I would see that the who's online block on the home page would show 800-1000 guest users and registered users 50-100. Now days the guest users averages between 2500 and 5000 and registered users 80 and 150.
I think it would nice if some one that is a DB admin for drupal.org to run some SQL queries on the users table using the created column.
You could easily find the grow of drupal.org from year to year and from release to release. I think this would make for some interesting reading. I you had to spend some time on this you could possibly get data out about how many users have posted over 100 posts and how many users have posted over 500 posts and how many users have never posted and maybe even an average per a user.
And then report back maybe in the news letter or as an announcement.
Just a suggestion
Thanks.
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tally..
the last Users ID on Drupal.org is 40528....my own ID is 8265 and I joined 1 year 29 weeks ago..so the growth is pretty drastic.
I think it will continue to shoot up now and it's a good idea to have a community stats page that indicates how quickly the Drupal userbase is growing...which add-on contributed modules are popular, ditto for handbook pages etc.
+1 from me for the idea
Edited: just out of curiosity..I did a quick unscientific analysis..the registered Drupal.org user tally 1 month ago was 37837 which suggests that 2691 new users joined in the last month or 86 per day or 673 per week.
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
let's say the obvious:
"Mambo".
Now, I've said the dirty word. That's where the people are coming from. Just like me. (Actually I am returning, but well.)
why is "mambo" a dirty word?
Sorry Dushan..
I don't get it..why is Mambo a dirty word?
I've tried mambo and it's very good..the reason I settled for Drupal is because it didn't offer close to the functionality and control Drupal does. But that's just me. I was looking for something at the top end of the range, the bleeding edge so to speak and mambo just didn't cut it for me.
That doesn't make it a bad product..I can see how some with less demands would settle for it and there are some user-friendly features that I gladly sacrificed in the name of functionality and control..but I don't see Mambo as a direct competitor to Drupal.
different users have different needs and Mambo maybe the right one for many.
I would imagine that many who are migrating from mambo to Drupal are doing so based on a feature check..rather than out of distaste with what's happened over there recently. Is that what you mean, by the way, when you say mambo is a dirty word?
I feel sorry for the mambo developers and community with the way that has turned..and while you probably have a point about a lot of new Drupallers being ex-Mambo-ers it may have something to do with reliability...after the shock over there a month or two back..I imagine many are nervous about investing time and effort in sticking with Mambo with a dark "will it still be here next year?" cloud hanging over it's existence.
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
dirty word?
i dunno. there were some Joomla devs at DrupalCon in A'dam and last I checked we have not lynched them or whatever. On the other hand, we seemed to have a friendly talk.
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t-shirt swaps?
I agree chx..I seem to remember seeing pictures of Drupallers wearing mambo t-shirts and visa versa recently...which suggests that if there is any rivalry, it's friendly.
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
Daily average
That would be nice to see, average daily signups for each month.
as an afterthought..
the Drupal.org user tally might not account for the international Drupal sites cropping up..such as the german, hungarian and others...
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
stats
Stats for popular modules and such is being worked on. Join in to the development list for that discussion. Lots and lots of underlying foundation work needing to be done to prepare the way for 'doing it right'.
Let's see if we can get Steven to do another of his growth charts when 4.7 is released. There are some floating out there. I believe each release shows a coresponding user jump of approx 30% for each version release of the 4.x series.
So all of you not quite so new folks reading this, when we release, we really need you all to play with and help guide the just jumping in folks through the process.
-sp
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Well, just have a look at this chart
drupal traffic details
Mambo is great!
Its all very easy to get, and it made my first steps towards Open Source CMS very easy, but it was not scalable enough to do what iam hoping to achive one day. Now that being said, everyone have to start on level 1... So mambo/joomla are great products that offers just what a standard webdev want to create to himself or the client. But if you want the little ekstra performance and not mention the freedom to create a site, and you have some PHP/HTML/CSS-skills, you can do awasome sites with drupal!
Security, and relaibility are some keywords to Drupal i would imagine..Now a review of CMS was that draw my attention to Drupal some weeks ago:)
Cheers Ayvind! (sry for my bad english)
server move
I also would not mind seeing if their has been a increase in user registrations since the server move.