A Pub Update in Metrics

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He can produce decent content — I’ve never read anything by him I’d categorize as “great”. Unfortunately he seems unable to set them aside these days. (And by “these days” I mean the last few years.)


Fair enough, I was being kind
 
I wanted to share some good news. Every few months I check to see how the Pub is doing in global metrics compared to similar sites. I will post two sets of numbers from Alexa, which is perhaps the most well known of these providers. These are worldwide rankings of popularity and interest at any one time. The first set is from May of this year and the second set is from today. I compared the Pub to theRPGSite, RPGnet and ENWorld.

May 15, 2019:
RPGPub: #994,855
theRPGSite:#314,714
RPGnet: #41,705
ENWorld: #24,162

November 8, 2019
RPGPub: #472,880
theRPGSite: #663,599
RPGnet: #57,494
ENWorld: #27,712

We are doing quite well and have showed a lot of growth. Thank you everyone for your support and I’m sure we can do even better in 2020.
Thanks for posting these!
 
Just for fun I checked the numbers again. A week later, we moved up to #405,170, about 70,000 spots higher.
For those curious. The number to the right of the raw rank is a ratio to the top RPG site.

November 17th
Enworld.org 27,259. 1
RPG.net 54,825. 2
Rpggeek.com 89,153 3.3
Tenkarstavern.com 189,942. 6.9
RPGPub 405,170. 14.9
Therpgsite.com 705,168. 25.9
Dragonsfoot.org 1,032,676. 37.9

November 8, 2019
ENWorld: #27,712. 1
RPGnet: #57,49? 2.1
Rpggeek.com 84,58? 3.0
Tenkarstavern.com 181,591. 6.6
RPGPub: #472,880. 17.1
theRPGSite: #663,599. 23.9
Dragonafoot.org 1,399,537. 50.4


May 15, 2019:
ENWorld: #24,162. 1
RPGnet: #41,705. 1.7
theRPGSite:#314,714. 13.0
RPGPub: #994,855. 41.2
 
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I don't want to put too much stock in this but the Pub is at #398,912 as of today. For those who are unaware, the closer to #1 you are, the better, and if you get into the top 100,000, that's really good for metrics.
 
I don't want to put too much stock in this but the Pub is at #398,912 as of today. For those who are unaware, the closer to #1 you are, the better, and if you get into the top 100,000, that's really good for metrics.
I saw that too! I'm thinking of writing a little script to check the stats and post here if I find the time
 
I think we can get in the top 200 soon.
 
I saw that too! I'm thinking of writing a little script to check the stats and post here if I find the time

for those curious and with a linux or cygwin install.
from wherever you run the scrip create a scripts directory with a file called rpgsites.txt.
rm *index*|wget -i sites/rpgsites.txt;grep -h \<strong *| sed 's/<strong>//'|sed 's/<\/strong> has Alexa Rank <strong>/ /'|sed 's/<\/strong> <\/div>//'|sort -k2 -n rpgsites.txt should contain: https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=enworld.org&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPG.net&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGgeek.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=tenkarstavern.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGPub.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=therpgsite.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=dragonsfoot.org&button=
 
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Dec 3rd 2019
enworld.org 28658
rpg.net 54149
rpggeek.com 92094
tenkarstavern.com 201710
rpgpub.com 314381
therpgsite.com 543336
dragonsfoot.org 1438360
 
Never thought about the lack of moderation, but you’re probably right.

And it’s cool that moderation here is so often as simple as “whoa everyone, let’s chill” and to the best of my recollection no actual posters caught a ban here, ever.

Regarding Pundit, I don’t even know that he’s into gaming anymore. It’s all... well... you know. That thing we don’t discuss here? That.
Yeah, he was actually doing pretty good with his OSR stuff, but I haven’t seen much product from him lately.
 
for those curious and with a linux or cygwin install.
from wherever you run the scrip create a scripts directory with a file called rpgsites.txt.
rm *index*|wget -i sites/rpgsites.txt;grep -h \<strong *| sed 's/<strong>//'|sed 's/<\/strong> has Alexa Rank <strong>/ /'|sed 's/<\/strong> <\/div>//'|sort -k2 -n rpgsites.txt should contain: https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=enworld.org&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPG.net&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGgeek.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=tenkarstavern.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGPub.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=therpgsite.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=dragonsfoot.org&button=

I didn’t think I’d see Linux on the pub but I am thankful.
 
One of the things that helps the Pub is that Xenforo, the forum software, is pretty good at SEO right out of the box. Another thing that helps is that the discussion here is wide-ranging and that helps with Google searches on RPG topics and getting hits for the Pub.
 
I didn’t think I’d see Linux on the pub but I am thankful.
Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.

I'm curious about the younger folks here. I'm kind of assuming OS familiarity is common. How many folks here under 40 have some familiarity with Linux?
 
Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.

I'm curious about the younger folks here. I'm kind of assuming OS familiarity is common. How many folks here under 40 have some familiarity with Linux?

CS degree, started as a linux sysadmin at my current place of work. have moved on a bit, but still keep knowledgeable a bit
 
Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.

I'm curious about the younger folks here. I'm kind of assuming OS familiarity is common. How many folks here under 40 have some familiarity with Linux?
I had a linux box once, but it was very, very picky about when it would play MP3's so I wound up ditching it. Since then, my only experience of it is setting up basic license servers; I'm very much a Windows person these days.

Of course, I'm also old enough to remember TOS and AmigaOS, both very respectable things.
 
Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.

I'm curious about the younger folks here. I'm kind of assuming OS familiarity is common. How many folks here under 40 have some familiarity with Linux?

Im over 40, have a degree in IT and have zero familiarity with Linux.
 
Under 40, but quite familiar with Linux and Unix more generally. Anybody with an interest in these things I recommend Kernighan's recent 2019 "biography" of Unix:

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Ubuntu: An ancient Bantu word meaning "I can't install Debian."

I do have Linux on one of my extensive collection of Thinkpads but I'm on a brick wall getting Optimus to work. I can't help thinking I've missed something but my google-fu is a complete failure at this point. Every now and then I see someone running Linux on the train - including a gentleman after my own heart with Kali on his crusty old T420. This may have had libreboot firmware or he may simply have liked old-style 7-row keyboards.

I may just time out with this and rebuild my T430 with Linux as it just has onboard graphics, which should work out-of-the-box. The other option I'm considering is just to run it in a VM on a Windows host. Not sure if that absolves you from getting Optimus working though - I suppose one could commune with it over xming or some such.

In case you're wondering why, a make-based LaTeX toolchain works better on linux, although it is possible to do it on Windows with gnu win32 - which is based on msvcrt so it understands native windows drive mappings (but has a much slimmer feature set than cygwin.[1])

I'm quite pleasantly surprised to see someone who knows how to write a shell script. Not sure you would have gotten that out of one line of Powershell.
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1 - my fave unix-on-windows is of course NT4 Services For Unix, which had a kill command that actually does what it says on the tin. It ignored all the user space security Windows put on its own process killing and just terminated the process. This made NT4 SFU the most useful piece of systems software that Microsoft ever published. MS, of course, deprecated the feature in later releases, but NT4 SFU still worked on most versions of Windows 2000 and 2003, at least in its 32 bit incarnations.

Mein gott, Microsoft does put a lot of shit in its userspace.
 
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Ubuntu: An ancient Bantu word meaning "I can't install Debian."

I do have Linux on one of my extensive collection of Thinkpads but I'm on a brick wall getting Optimus to work. I can't help thinking I've missed something but my google-fu is a complete failure at this point. Every now and then I see someone running Linux on the train - including a gentleman after my own heart with Kali on his crusty old T420. This may have had libreboot firmware or he may simply have liked old-style 7-row keyboards.

I may just time out with this and rebuild my T430 with Linux as it just has onboard graphics, which should work out-of-the-box. The other option I'm considering is just to run it in a VM on a Windows host. Not sure if that absolves you from getting Optimus working though - I suppose one could commune with it over xming or some such.

In case you're wondering why, a make-based LaTeX toolchain works better on linux, although it is possible to do it on Windows with gnu win32 - which is based on msvcrt so it understands native windows drive mappings (but has a much slimmer feature set than cygwin.[1])

I'm quite pleasantly surprised to see someone who knows how to write a shell script. Not sure you would have gotten that out of one line of Powershell.
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1 - my fave unix-on-windows is of course NT4 Services For Unix, which had a kill command that actually does what it says on the tin. It ignored all the user space security Windows put on its own process killing and just terminated the process. This made NT4 SFU the most useful piece of systems software that Microsoft ever published. MS, of course, deprecated the feature in later releases, but NT4 SFU still worked on most versions of Windows 2000 and 2003, at least in its 32 bit incarnations.

Mein gott, Microsoft does put a lot of shit in its userspace.
I have no idea what any of this post means.:errr:
 
Dec 12 2019

enworld.org 28,418
rpg.net 52,503
rpggeek.com 91,882
tenkarstavern.com 207,483
rpgpub.com 283,764
therpgsite.com 513,180
dragonsfoot.org 1,273,534

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Dec 17th 2019
enworld.org 29011
rpg.net 52164
rpggeek.com 95990
tenkarstavern.com 204905
rpgpub.com 268750
therpgsite.com 483706
dragonsfoot.org 1272224
 
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