If you are wondering who Data Bot [Wolfy] is...

[Data Bot [Wolfy]]

Its just me, wolfy. This is an account I made for a memberlist combing bot meant to output a CSV file that will allow me to create a graph of how many users joined on each day, how many users joined on each day that actually posted, how many 'recently active' users joined on each day, etc. etc.

It doesn't collect any data beyond postcount, join date, and username, and none of the data even ends up permanently stored. Plus I could just have seen any of the other data in the admin control panel (Except passwords) anyways, so its not like its anything special.

[Aury]

[For confirmation, yes this is me. Memberlist access requires an account, hence the bot's account. I was originally going to do this all by hand, but somehow I managed to not only get everything offset by a whole month, but I didn't feel like manually typing out everything for every single day of the last 6 years]

[Aury]

This was a triumph, I'm making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS...

Anyways, I got it working, and I shall put up a really long graph showing a day-by-day plot of users who joined, and users who joined who posted.

[Aury]

Very long graphs are long (filesize is only 120-160kb though)

non-annotated
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3061400/transce ... islong.png

annotated
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3061400/transce ... otated.png

[Ttech]

Well, that graph is cool, quite a bit bigger then I would have liked. Javascript graph might be better, do you plan on releasing the code?

[Aury]

The code for the bot? Lol no, it is HORRIBLY hackish and embarrassingly bad and suboptimal because my only concern was harvesting data, and SMF provides a lot of stats built right in, unlike PHPBB3 >.< - thus the code is specific to this one site.

[Ttech]

I'm sure we can get something to handle the stats if we wanted - a plugin or such.