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Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this. Thes

Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this. These are our stats for minecraftforum.net (last 30 days): > Visits: 33,793,899 > Unique Visitors: 11,094,806 A forum for an indie game is half the size of 4chan; the biggest western forum. Pretty neat. We're also bigger than 4chan in the UK. I'm not sure if this makes 4chan small or Minecraft huge :p

qwertyz 14y ago
If you look at ClouldFlare's report, Google Analytics misses at least 30% of the pageviews, so there's a good chunk of unaccounted visitors. You are more like a third/quarter the size.
- lumberjack 14y ago
  A lot of anons are actively blocking online tracking technologies, much more than the usual 1% that run NoScript.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    And heck, some access 4chan over Tor, which means any statistics about latency and location are quite probably wrong. (You might think Tor is slow for image-heavy sites, in my experience it isn't. Tor is high-latency, but throughput is reasonable)
    - runn1ng 14y ago
      Most of the Tor relays are banned on 4chan, though.
      - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
        Ah, that's true.
smackfu 14y ago
Minecraft videos are regularly in the top 10 most viewed on YouTube. I think it's that Minecraft is huge plus the players are very engaged on the internet with it.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Say what you want about the quality of the game (I personally detest many of its more recent changes and its loss of clear direction), Minecraft has a huge and very, very active community. Notch might not have cracked designing a game, but he's certainly cracked making a game community.
  - justinhj 14y ago
    A game that is fun and popular is by definition well designed I would say.
    - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
      I suppose. I used to find it fun, but some of the changes made more recently have drained much of the fun from it, for me.
      - kokoge 14y ago
        Could you tell what changes exactly are you talking about?
        TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
        Hunger, biomes (although that's an old change now), Endermen, end game.

qwertyz 14y ago

If you look at ClouldFlare's report, Google Analytics misses at least 30% of the pageviews, so there's a good chunk of unaccounted visitors. You are more like a third/quarter the size.

lumberjack 14y ago
A lot of anons are actively blocking online tracking technologies, much more than the usual 1% that run NoScript.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  And heck, some access 4chan over Tor, which means any statistics about latency and location are quite probably wrong. (You might think Tor is slow for image-heavy sites, in my experience it isn't. Tor is high-latency, but throughput is reasonable)
  - runn1ng 14y ago
    Most of the Tor relays are banned on 4chan, though.
    - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
      Ah, that's true.

smackfu 14y ago

Minecraft videos are regularly in the top 10 most viewed on YouTube. I think it's that Minecraft is huge plus the players are very engaged on the internet with it.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
Say what you want about the quality of the game (I personally detest many of its more recent changes and its loss of clear direction), Minecraft has a huge and very, very active community. Notch might not have cracked designing a game, but he's certainly cracked making a game community.
- justinhj 14y ago
  A game that is fun and popular is by definition well designed I would say.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    I suppose. I used to find it fun, but some of the changes made more recently have drained much of the fun from it, for me.
    - kokoge 14y ago
      Could you tell what changes exactly are you talking about?
      - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
        Hunger, biomes (although that's an old change now), Endermen, end game.