First thread to hit one-million views?

[Borek]

Edible foot?

 

[Andre]

Sounds less healthy

Anyway, it appears that Greg's cat toy promotion campaign has been effective, but some more effort would still be required to beat the caption competition.

The landmark game scores second in daily hits now.

 

[Evo]

Those dates on the bottom are backwards.

 

[Andre]

That would seem so, however it's a Dutch spreadsheet and in Europe we have other habits.

 

[Andre]

With again backward dates the ratings of the last 40 days

I wondered too if it's worthwhile to keep putting effort in the landmark thread. As it leads currently in daily views, maybe it is.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It looks to me like the thread about the nuclear accident in Japan will easily be the winner. After just six weeks it is past 500K!
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=480200

The views-to-posts ratio is only a little over 100:1, which is higher than normal for the time frame but not exceedingly high. We've had threads that fetched 1000 views per post at times, like my algae thread. But the activity level in the nuclear thread is a first.

 

[Borek]

It looks to me like the thread about the nuclear accident in Japan will easily be the winner. After just six weeks it is past 500K!

This thread will sooner or later die when the situation gets stable.

Let's hope it will die well before 1M

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This thread will sooner or later die when the situation gets stable.

Let's hope it will die well before 1M

Even if this ended tomorrow, I would expect that there is enough momentum to carry the thread through to a million views. It is hard to know but there is typically a significant hit rate after the discussion ends, for monster threads. Also, I would imagine the discussion about this event will continue for decades to come. So as long as the thread remains open, it would be surprising if the posts stopped coming.

So far the thread is averaging ~100K hits per week.

 

[Borek]

Even if this ended tomorrow, I would expect that there is enough momentum to carry the thread through to a million views. It is hard to know but there is typically a significant hit rate after the discussion ends, for monster threads. Also, I would imagine the discussion about this event will continue for decades to come. So as long as the thread remains open, it would be surprising if the posts stopped coming.

Sure, but I am following the thread on the daily basis from the very beginning - and I can tell you iot already slowed won substantially. At the beginning of April when I got up in the morning I had to read up to 3 or even 4 pages on new posts, right now it is more like 1-2 pages.

And I still hope there will be no new events to fuel it up.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sure, but I am following the thread on the daily basis from the very beginning - and I can tell you iot already slowed won substantially. At the beginning of April when I got up in the morning I had to read up to 3 or even 4 pages on new posts, right now it is more like 1-2 pages.

No doubt it is slowing. But it still got as many hits in six weeks as the Cat Toy thread got in four years!

And I still hope there will be no new events to fuel it up.

Oh, I was hoping for another major disaster so the thread will hit a million!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The thread got ~7000 hits in about 24 hours, so the hit rate is currently about half of the average of 100K per week. It will be interesting to see how it proceeds.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

On the 22nd the nuclear thread was at 542K. Today it is at 631K. So for the week it accumulated just under 90K hits.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

687,191 - so a gain of 56K hits in a week

There was an issue with the post counter this week that likely cost about 20K hits. So the average appears to be 77K for the week.

 

[Borek]

715,065 now - 28k in two days.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

792,993

 

[Borek]

Last few days were hectic, I guess it will slow down a little bit now.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Last few days were hectic, I guess it will slow down a little bit now.

It had slowed to about 50K hits per week but jumped up to about 100K again. I guess it depends on the latest news out of Japan. I haven't been following the story in detail, but it seems the news that reactor one melted down is what caused the increased activity.

 

[Borek]

It had slowed to about 50K hits per week but jumped up to about 100K again. I guess it depends on the latest news out of Japan. I haven't been following the story in detail, but it seems the news that reactor one melted down is what caused the increased activity.

Actually it more depends on new users registering to post in this thread.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Actually it more depends on new users registering to post in this thread.

Which in turn depends on what? I would guess the news out of Japan.

 

[turbo]

I fully expect to log on tomorrow morning and find the Japan nuke thread to have hit over 800K.

 

[Borek]

At 852k Fukushima thread already passed caption competition thread.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

At 852k Fukushima thread already passed caption competition thread.

absolutely incredible!

 

[DR13]

At 852k Fukushima thread already passed caption competition thread.

Suprising since the nuclear engineering section tends to have little traffic. I have seen it go days without a new post. But I suppose this is what happens when you combine a disaster that has worldwide implications with science and engineering.

 

[lisab]

Sorry if this has already been asked, but is the column wide enough to show 1,000,000?

 

[Borek]

We will see soon

 

[Char. Limit]

I'll put 20 dollars on the Fukushima thread being the first.

 

[BobG]

Sorry if this has already been asked, but is the column wide enough to show 1,000,000?

The column width depends on the number of digits. The column for the title will shrink accordingly.

At least, that's my prediction based on the difference in column widths between the Quantum Physics subforum and the Nuclear Engineering subforum. The Quantum Physics subforum has no threads with 4 digit number of replies nor a 5 digit number of views.

Plus, as we've seen happen when people post pictures, the width of the entire screen is dynamic, as well.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

April 22nd - 542K.

April 30th - 631K

May 7th - 687,191 [There was an issue with the post counter that likely cost about 20K hits. So the average appears to be 77K for the week

May 14th - 792,993

Today - 885,860

Predictions?

 

[Borek]

May 22nd - 542K.

May 14th - 792,993

Predictions?

Zero on June 8^th?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Zero on June 8^th?

Whoops, I had "May" all the way through. Corrected.