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Welcome to the fourth annual theColi Analytics Awards! Year after year we chronicle in hard numbers, the good, bad, weird, and downright crazy users and posts of Coli fame. Once again, big ups to @cook and @brooklynson along with many mods have put that work into maintaining this site.
This was created by crawling the site using the Python script crawler Scrapy and then parsing the page XML using BeautifulSoup.
Once again there are four major sections:
First, stats on the evolution of posting on the Coli and by forum. Which forums are hot, which not, and how is traffic trending? In particular, we will look at how user participation has evolved over time
Second, user awards for the entire site (this post and the next) giving the good, bad, and ugly on our top members. New awards include the most polarizing members
Third, user awards by forum
Fourth smilie usage
In another thread I will highlight this year’s most popular posts
SO let’s get started:
Evolution of the Coli
The Coli was started in 2012 primarily by refugees from SOHH but also some others. The site has continuously grown in membership and posting though it has slowed recently as new registrations have been throttled. First, the traffic breakdown of the Coli. Below are charts of percent share in total posts over time as well as percent share in new posts over time. As probably expected, TLR, the Coliseum, and the Booth have the most activity with TLR growing its share over time at the expense of the others.
Note the forums have changed such as the Root came out of Race Track that was once part of TLR and HL and TSC came out of the Film Room. So that is why they have big jumps in their first years
Share of total posts over time
Share of new posts over time
As well as the change in new posts by year and new posts by user by year. In short, there were three periods: the boom years of 2012-13, the growth and “golden age” of 2014-2016, and finally a decline in post activity and new users starting in 2017 with a lower floor being relatively constant since 2019. The good news is the user base has not changed much but post interest remains high.
Total new posts per year
New posts per active user per year
There have been about 8,600 active (not total, but people who have posted) members, including those banned or who stopped posting. About 44%, just under half, joined in 2012. The graphs show new active members by year. Ther last major year for new members was 2018 with a new class of 135. In 2019 36 members also joined. Since then the Coli has mostly been closed with only three new members since December 15, 2019: @CopiousX on 12/15/19, @BigSteppa on 4/4/20 and the only 2021 add was @jensyao on 4/8/21.
New users by year
As far as impactful members, the daps/post ratio is a good indicator. The number of new dap/per post members that joined the Coli actually peaked in 2015 & 2016.
Welcome to the fourth annual theColi Analytics Awards! Year after year we chronicle in hard numbers, the good, bad, weird, and downright crazy users and posts of Coli fame. Once again, big ups to @cook and @brooklynson along with many mods have put that work into maintaining this site.
This was created by crawling the site using the Python script crawler Scrapy and then parsing the page XML using BeautifulSoup.
Once again there are four major sections:
First, stats on the evolution of posting on the Coli and by forum. Which forums are hot, which not, and how is traffic trending? In particular, we will look at how user participation has evolved over time
Second, user awards for the entire site (this post and the next) giving the good, bad, and ugly on our top members. New awards include the most polarizing members
Third, user awards by forum
Fourth smilie usage
In another thread I will highlight this year’s most popular posts
SO let’s get started:
Evolution of the Coli
The Coli was started in 2012 primarily by refugees from SOHH but also some others. The site has continuously grown in membership and posting though it has slowed recently as new registrations have been throttled. First, the traffic breakdown of the Coli. Below are charts of percent share in total posts over time as well as percent share in new posts over time. As probably expected, TLR, the Coliseum, and the Booth have the most activity with TLR growing its share over time at the expense of the others.
Note the forums have changed such as the Root came out of Race Track that was once part of TLR and HL and TSC came out of the Film Room. So that is why they have big jumps in their first years
Share of total posts over time
Share of new posts over time
As well as the change in new posts by year and new posts by user by year. In short, there were three periods: the boom years of 2012-13, the growth and “golden age” of 2014-2016, and finally a decline in post activity and new users starting in 2017 with a lower floor being relatively constant since 2019. The good news is the user base has not changed much but post interest remains high.
Total new posts per year
New posts per active user per year
There have been about 8,600 active (not total, but people who have posted) members, including those banned or who stopped posting. About 44%, just under half, joined in 2012. The graphs show new active members by year. Ther last major year for new members was 2018 with a new class of 135. In 2019 36 members also joined. Since then the Coli has mostly been closed with only three new members since December 15, 2019: @CopiousX on 12/15/19, @BigSteppa on 4/4/20 and the only 2021 add was @jensyao on 4/8/21.
New users by year
As far as impactful members, the daps/post ratio is a good indicator. The number of new dap/per post members that joined the Coli actually peaked in 2015 & 2016.
On my fukking back this website I had in 2021.
