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Top 30 articles | # | Title | Page Impressions | | 1 | Top Ten Easy Mushrooms for the Beginner (2004-11-08 12:45:25) | 490 | | 2 | Deck on a Hill (2004-10-26 04:07:12) | 426 | | 3 | Creating a Store-room (2004-11-14 15:29:09) | 367 | | 4 | First steps in finding out about downsizing (2004-11-05 05:12:11) | 361 | | 5 | Home wine making (2004-11-05 03:08:27) | 344 | | 6 | Top Ten Wild Foods to Gather in Winter (2004-12-02 12:15:22) | 332 | | 7 | Chicken Keeping (2004-11-03 05:51:01) | 306 | | 8 | Filing Cabinet Hot/Cold smoker (2004-10-26 05:49:42) | 287 | | 9 | Feeding Chickens (2004-11-09 17:03:31) | 270 | | 10 | In praise of the humble allotment (2004-10-26 10:23:26) | 233 | | 11 | Creating a wood working shop (2004-11-18 11:23:55) | 177 | | 12 | Personalised Knitting and more (2004-11-02 10:51:12) | 169 | | 13 | Living Memorials (2004-11-15 13:31:50) | 160 | | 14 | Mooncup Memoirs (2004-12-02 06:08:51) | 154 | | 15 | Installing a wood burner (2004-11-22 09:46:34) | 152 | | 16 | Eggonomics or the maths for keeping chickens (2004-11-23 12:17:25) | 152 | | 17 | Big small wind power! (2004-11-18 07:24:34) | 139 | | 18 | Bread Making (2004-12-01 16:42:37) | 133 | | 19 | Home Education Basics (2004-11-29 10:08:22) | 126 | | 20 | Sloe Gin and Vodka (2004-11-09 09:12:03) | 121 | | 21 | River Cottage Meat Book - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2004-11-04 02:29:33) | 120 | | 22 | Dustbin or Dinnertable? (2004-10-29 06:40:50) | 118 | | 23 | Worried? (2004-11-05 10:09:53) | 118 | | 24 | Basic Stock Making - - Beef, Chicken, Fish (2004-11-05 06:28:15) | 116 | | 25 | How to... joint a rabbit (2004-11-09 09:00:13) | 116 | | 26 | Great Xmas Pressies (2004-11-03 02:07:37) | 108 | | 27 | Building Your Own Home (2004-12-02 10:00:36) | 105 | | 28 | The Hydrometer (2004-11-05 15:29:31) | 102 | | 29 | Basic Guide to Safer Internet Use (2004-11-20 17:19:29) | 100 | | 30 | Small Scale Coppice Production (2004-12-02 10:12:21) | 99 |
Sone quite notable risers! Wild food for winter is storming.
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sean
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That's cos Cab keeps showing it to people at work. 
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jema
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I'm surprised and impressed by "Deck on a Hill" which was I believe the first article published on the site, but was quite down the ranks. It is looking like it might threaten those mushrooms for top spot 
Daft really as it is scraping the barrel a bit in terms of relevence to the site, but we had to start somewhere!
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cab
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| sean wrote: | | That's cos Cab keeps showing it to people at work. |
*scribbles down idea for boosting hits*
Not bad....
Actually, I've posted a link to it on a yahoo group devoted to wild foods and on similar livejournal group; both of them have -tiny- readerships, but all of the readers would be people who would be ideal members here. That's about all I've doen to publicise them.
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sean
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So where are all the deck fetishists coming from?
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jema
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Bet we get search engine hits on this thread! that list is a gold mine of downsizing keywords 
jema
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cab
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| jema wrote: | I'm surprised and impressed by "Deck on a Hill" which was I believe the first article published on the site, but was quite down the ranks. It is looking like it might threaten those mushrooms for top spot
Daft really as it is scraping the barrel a bit in terms of relevence to the site, but we had to start somewhere!
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Deck on a hill is a good article. It's off the wall, which is its charm.
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tahir
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It's nowhere near the wall 
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jema
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Call me a sad git, but I just looked at the figures again, surprising how many of the articles have accumilated more hits in the last 20 minutes or so
All are now 100 or above!
jema
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twoscoops
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I also think Cab should be volunteering to lead winter forays for wild food!
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jema
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| tahir wrote: | | It's nowhere near the wall |
Hopefully it is very firmly attached to the damn wall, it took us long enough with the damn engineering bricks the wall is made of 
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tahir
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| Twoscoops wrote: | | I also think Cab should be volunteering to lead winter forays for wild food! |
That is a tip top idea, hows about a foraging saturday next summer Cab?
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cab
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| Twoscoops wrote: | | I also think Cab should be volunteering to lead winter forays for wild food! |
Winter foraging, far more so than foraging at other times of the year, is a solitary passtime. Meaning that I'm not sharing my wild sorrel with anyone
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tahir
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Ah, but what about my suggestion?
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sean
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| jema wrote: | | tahir wrote: | | It's nowhere near the wall |
Hopefully it is very firmly attached to the damn wall, it took us long enough with the damn engineering bricks the wall is made of
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Most of our last house semed to be constructed using engineering bricks. I got through a lot of drill bits.
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cab
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| tahir wrote: |
That is a tip top idea, hows about a foraging saturday next summer Cab? |
Hmmm... Maybe. I'll think about it.
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jema
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| Cab wrote: | | tahir wrote: |
That is a tip top idea, hows about a foraging saturday next summer Cab? |
Hmmm... Maybe. I'll think about it. |
Myabe you could pick an unknown area, rather than give away the secrets?
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cab
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How would I find an unknown area?
Naah, it's certainly do-able. It'd be best to pick somewhere simple and central and stick to 30 or so common plants and any exciting mushrooms that we came across... Let me mull it over.
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jema
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| Cab wrote: | How would I find an unknown area?
Naah, it's certainly do-able. It'd be best to pick somewhere simple and central and stick to 30 or so common plants and any exciting mushrooms that we came across... Let me mull it over. |
Well I can look at an ordinance survery map round here and spot a lot of public areas I don't know!
But back to the thread and you will like this!
| # | Title | Page Impressions | | 1 | Top Ten Wild Foods to Gather in Winter (2004-12-02 12:15:22) | 558 | | 2 | Top Ten Easy Mushrooms for the Beginner (2004-11-08 12:45:25) | 504 | | 3 | Deck on a Hill (2004-10-26 04:07:12) | 436 | | 4 | First steps in finding out about downsizing (2004-11-05 05:12:11) | 388 | | 5 | Creating a Store-room (2004-11-14 15:29:09) | 388 | | 6 | Home wine making (2004-11-05 03:08:27) | 365 | | 7 | Filing Cabinet Hot/Cold smoker (2004-10-26 05:49:42) | 325 | | 8 | Chicken Keeping (2004-11-03 05:51:01) | 325 | | 9 | Feeding Chickens (2004-11-09 17:03:31) | 272 | | 10 | In praise of the humble allotment (2004-10-26 10:23:26) | 255 | | 11 | Creating a wood working shop (2004-11-18 11:23:55) | 184 | | 12 | Personalised Knitting and more (2004-11-02 10:51:12) | 170 | | 13 | Living Memorials (2004-11-15 13:31:50) | 162 | | 14 | Eggonomics or the maths for keeping chickens (2004-11-23 12:17:25) | 158 | | 15 | Mooncup Memoirs (2004-12-02 06:08:51) | 157 | | 16 | Installing a wood burner (2004-11-22 09:46:34) | 154 | | 17 | Big small wind power! (2004-11-18 07:24:34) | 140 | | 18 | Bread Making (2004-12-01 16:42:37) | 135 | | 19 | Home Education Basics (2004-11-29 10:08:22) | 126 | | 20 | Sloe Gin and Vodka (2004-11-09 09:12:03) | 124 | | 21 | River Cottage Meat Book - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2004-11-04 02:29:33) | 122 | | 22 | Small Scale Coppice Production (2004-12-02 10:12:21) | 120 | | 23 | Dustbin or Dinnertable? (2004-10-29 06:40:50) | 119 | | 24 | Worried? (2004-11-05 10:09:53) | 119 | | 25 | How to... joint a rabbit (2004-11-09 09:00:13) | 119 | | 26 | Basic Stock Making - - Beef, Chicken, Fish (2004-11-05 06:28:15) | 117 | | 27 | Building Your Own Home (2004-12-02 10:00:36) | 113 | | 28 | Great Xmas Pressies (2004-11-03 02:07:37) | 110 | | 29 | The Hydrometer (2004-11-05 15:29:31) | 102 | | 30 | Basic Guide to Safer Internet Use (2004-11-20 17:19:29) | 102 |
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cab
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Yeah, I'd noticed that the top ten winter forages article was top article. Quite surprising that it's picking up hits so fast. Do you think there's something especially google-able in the title?
I'm thinking on doing a 'Ten things to do with Winter Mushrooms' article next, covering the best ways of using blewits, oyster mushrooms, etc.
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jema
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| Cab wrote: | Yeah, I'd noticed that the top ten winter forages article was top article. Quite surprising that it's picking up hits so fast. Do you think there's something especially google-able in the title?
I'm thinking on doing a 'Ten things to do with Winter Mushrooms' article next, covering the best ways of using blewits, oyster mushrooms, etc. |
The site stats do *not* support this theory. I would have guessed this myself, but it is not the case.
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tahir
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Good idea for your next new article Cab
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jema
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| # | Title | Page Impressions | | 1 | Top Ten Wild Foods to Gather in Winter (2004-12-02 12:15:22) | 791 | | 2 | Deck on a Hill (2004-10-26 04:07:12) | 668 | | 3 | Top Ten Easy Mushrooms for the Beginner (2004-11-08 12:45:25) | 565 | | 4 | First steps in finding out about downsizing (2004-11-05 05:12:11) | 514 | | 5 | Creating a Store-room (2004-11-14 15:29:09) | 473 | | 6 | Home wine making (2004-11-05 03:08:27) | 459 | | 7 | Filing Cabinet Hot/Cold smoker (2004-10-26 05:49:42) | 444 | | 8 | Chicken Keeping (2004-11-03 05:51:01) | 422 | | 9 | In praise of the humble allotment (2004-10-26 10:23:26) | 342 | | 10 | Feeding Chickens (2004-11-09 17:03:31) | 281 | | 11 | Creating a wood working shop (2004-11-18 11:23:55) | 194 | | 12 | Small Scale Coppice Production (2004-12-02 10:12:21) | 188 | | 13 | Personalised Knitting and more (2004-11-02 10:51:12) | 180 | | 14 | Mooncup Memoirs (2004-12-02 06:08:51) | 178 | | 15 | Living Memorials (2004-11-15 13:31:50) | 170 | | 16 | Installing a wood burner (2004-11-22 09:46:34) | 167 | | 17 | Eggonomics or the maths for keeping chickens (2004-11-23 12:17:25) | 167 | | 18 | Bread Making (2004-12-01 16:42:37) | 153 | | 19 | Big small wind power! (2004-11-18 07:24:34) | 145 | | 20 | Building Your Own Home (2004-12-02 10:00:36) | 145 | | 21 | Home Education Basics (2004-11-29 10:08:22) | 139 | | 22 | Sloe Gin and Vodka (2004-11-09 09:12:03) | 133 | | 23 | River Cottage Meat Book - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2004-11-04 02:29:33) | 128 | | 24 | Worried? (2004-11-05 10:09:53) | 126 | | 25 | How to... joint a rabbit (2004-11-09 09:00:13) | 125 | | 26 | Dustbin or Dinnertable? (2004-10-29 06:40:50) | 122 | | 27 | Basic Stock Making - - Beef, Chicken, Fish (2004-11-05 06:28:15) | 122 | | 28 | LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) (2004-12-01 13:24:33) | 119 | | 29 | Going Organic Isn’t Just About Food (2004-12-09 05:50:41) | 118 | | 30 | Great Xmas Pressies (2004-11-03 02:07:37) | 116 | | 31 | The Hydrometer (2004-11-05 15:29:31) | 109 | | 32 | Basic Guide to Safer Internet Use (2004-11-20 17:19:29) | 106 | | 33 | Real Christmas Spirit - Charity Fund instead of Christmas Cards (2004-12-03 12:15:37) | 106 | | 34 | Arkwrights Homebrew (2004-10-26 07:47:43) | 99 | | 35 | Chicken Concerns, Problems and Ailments (2004-11-28 11:22:19) | 97 | | 36 | The forum's reputation ethos (2004-10-30 03:58:11) | 96 | | 37 | Smoking times with portions and a small smoker (2004-10-26 14:18:12) | 81 | | 38 | Coming soon... (2004-10-28 09:25:30) | 79 | | 39 | Welcome to downsizer.net (2004-10-25 15:38:32) | 76 | | 40 | Welcome to our newest site admins (2004-10-26 07:39:02) | 71 | | 41 | Building your own incubator (2004-12-14 05:14:21) | 68 | | 42 | Starting out (2004-10-26 11:11:31) | 67 | | 43 | Downsizer.net forums (2004-10-28 07:51:4 | 62 | | 44 | Looking for editors/contributors (2004-10-25 22:39:54) | 52 | | 45 | Need a second PC? (2004-11-05 11:10:32) | 48 | | 46 | Classified ads (2004-10-28 22:55:02) | 45 | | 47 | Dealing with a stuck ferment (2004-10-26 04:23:05) | 43 | | 48 | marsjupiter.com web design (2004-10-26 09:35:06) | 40 | | 49 | Zebra Graphic Design (2004-10-26 11:57:35) | 37 | | 50 | What do we mean by ethical? (2004-10-27 00:30:37) | 34 |
Amongst the interesting points to note here, is the clear development of the inevitable "popular because their popular" effect. Indicating a degree of people browsing the popular list from the front page.
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jema
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| # | Title | Page Impressions | | 1 | Top Ten Wild Foods to Gather in Winter (2004-12-02 12:15:22) | 914 | | 2 | Deck on a Hill (2004-10-26 04:07:12) | 741 | | 3 | First steps in finding out about downsizing (2004-11-05 05:12:11) | 639 | | 4 | Top Ten Wild Mushrooms for the Beginner (2004-11-08 12:45:25) | 615 | | 5 | Home wine making (2004-11-05 03:08:27) | 559 | | 6 | Creating a Store-room (2004-11-14 15:29:09) | 540 | | 7 | Chicken Keeping (2004-11-03 05:51:01) | 527 | | 8 | Filing Cabinet Hot/Cold smoker (2004-10-26 05:49:42) | 519 | | 9 | In praise of the humble allotment (2004-10-26 10:23:26) | 400 | | 10 | Feeding Chickens (2004-11-09 17:03:31) | 296 | | 11 | Small Scale Coppice Production (2004-12-02 10:12:21) | 230 | | 12 | Creating a wood working shop (2004-11-18 11:23:55) | 202 | | 13 | Mooncup Memoirs (2004-12-02 06:08:51) | 188 | | 14 | Personalised Knitting and more (2004-11-02 10:51:12) | 181 | | 15 | Eggonomics or the maths for keeping chickens (2004-11-23 12:17:25) | 181 | | 16 | Building Your Own Home (2004-12-02 10:00:36) | 180 | | 17 | Installing a wood burner (2004-11-22 09:46:34) | 178 | | 18 | Living Memorials (2004-11-15 13:31:50) | 171 | | 19 | Bread Making (2004-12-01 16:42:37) | 167 | | 20 | River Cottage Meat Book - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2004-11-04 02:29:33) | 165 | | 21 | Going Organic Isn’t Just About Food (2004-12-09 05:50:41) | 154 | | 22 | Big small wind power! (2004-11-18 07:24:34) | 153 | | 23 | Home Education Basics (2004-11-29 10:08:22) | 149 | | 24 | Sloe Gin and Vodka (2004-11-09 09:12:03) | 140 | | 25 | Worried? (2004-11-05 10:09:53) | 131 | | 26 | How to... joint a rabbit (2004-11-09 09:00:13) | 130 | | 27 | LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) (2004-12-01 13:24:33) | 129 | | 28 | Dustbin or Dinnertable? (2004-10-29 06:40:50) | 126 | | 29 | Basic Stock Making - - Beef, Chicken, Fish (2004-11-05 06:28:15) | 125 | | 30 | Real Christmas Spirit - Charity Fund instead of Christmas Cards (2004-12-03 12:15:37) | 122 | | 31 | Great Xmas Pressies (2004-11-03 02:07:37) | 121 | | 32 | Basic Guide to Safer Internet Use (2004-11-20 17:19:29) | 115 | | 33 | Arkwrights Homebrew (2004-10-26 07:47:43) | 112 | | 34 | The Hydrometer (2004-11-05 15:29:31) | 109 | | 35 | Chicken Concerns, Problems and Ailments (2004-11-28 11:22:19) | 103 | | 36 | Keeping Geese…..easy as pie! (2004-12-14 05:24:49) | 103 | | 37 | Building your own incubator (2004-12-14 05:14:21) | 99 | | 38 | The forum's reputation ethos (2004-10-30 03:58:11) | 97 | | 39 | Smoking times with portions and a small smoker (2004-10-26 14:18:12) | 85 | | 40 | Coming soon... (2004-10-28 09:25:30) | 84 | | 41 | Welcome to downsizer.net (2004-10-25 15:38:32) | 81 | | 42 | Welcome to our newest site admins (2004-10-26 07:39:02) | 77 | | 43 | Starting out (2004-10-26 11:11:31) | 73 | | 44 | Downsizer.net forums (2004-10-28 07:51:4 | 64 | | 45 | Looking for editors/contributors (2004-10-25 22:39:54) | 52 | | 46 | Need a second PC? (2004-11-05 11:10:32) | 49 | | 47 | Classified ads (2004-10-28 22:55:02) | 45 | | 48 | Dealing with a stuck ferment (2004-10-26 04:23:05) | 44 | | 49 | marsjupiter.com web design (2004-10-26 09:35:06) | 43 | | 50 | Zebra Graphic Design (2004-10-26 11:57:35) | 41 |
A few turn ups here!
jema
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cab
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Are we going to do this on some kind of seasonal basis? Top ten winter wild foods is so far out ahead, when I do the -spring- wild food article it'll take months before it starts to rate.
Do we need to do this on some kind of seasonally adjusted basis? Maybe the top ten thingy should discount hits that are more than three months old?
Or am I speaking crap?
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tahir
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I spose Spring foraging would get much better hits in spring (if that's what you're asking)
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cab
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| tahir wrote: | | I spose Spring foraging would get much better hits in spring (if that's what you're asking) |
Well, yes, of course it will. But I'm more getting at the problem that we're going to end up with articles that have been there a long time being in the top list merely because they've been there a long time; surely a list of the most popular articles should be a list of what's got the most hits in the previous (x) period of time?
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tahir
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I see what you mean, like most popular this week. I think it's a question of whether we have that data available and how we deal with it. Jema's the man, we'll wait and see what he says.
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jema
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I have already Aludded to the fact that I think we are already seeing an "in the top ten because its in the top ten factor".
I hadn't thought about the seasonal issue which is actually quite crucial.
It may be that I need to add a hack that will allow us to scrap "Most Popular" and any automation, and instead have "Editors Choice".
I think human choice is going to be a lot better in the long run.
jema
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tahir
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But can't we have the last 7 days top picks or something?
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jema
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| tahir wrote: | | But can't we have the last 7 days top picks or something? |
Well the last 7 days would be a repat of the front page to a large degree.
Is "Most Popular" that important on the front page?
jema
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tahir
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| jema wrote: | Is "Most Popular" that important on the front page?
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Dunno, but how are we going to index the articles, there's quite a lot in the pipeline.
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jema
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Not sure I see the problem?
We could actually have a page dedicated to most popular of all time. That is not a problem.
New articles would continue to get front page space.
The Editor would once a week or so, rearrange the "Editors Picks" which would replace Most Popular.
The Forum would continue to show "Latest Articles".
We would help the editor by taking a snapshot once a week of the figures and hence if a picked article showed poorly the following week it would be a good candiadate for dropping etc.
jema
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cab
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That's one way. Isn't there a simple mechanism by which total hits could be replaced by, say, hits per month? So that an articles total hits is divided by how long it's been there to give it a score?
Or is that a bugger to do?
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jema
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| Cab wrote: | That's one way. Isn't there a simple mechanism by which total hits could be replaced by, say, hits per month? So that an articles total hits is divided by how long it's been there to give it a score?
Or is that a bugger to do? |
I am sure I could do this, and if this is the consensus I will get it done. But that in of itself would not solve the seasonailty issue which is quite important to the forum.
jema
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