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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 11, 2015 8:48:33 GMT -5
As most of you know I have a blog and I have the forum linked there. One of the posts I made was a list of all of the countries that my blog is being viewed from and that list is here and if I can count right I am now up to 41 countries which includes places that I never would have guessed that my blog would be viewed from. My hope is that people from all of those places will find their way here. I was excited about being viewed from 41 countries and I wish I had some way to access that information for the forum itself. Just to let you know I have been keeping an eye how many visitors are showing for the last 24 hours and the highest I have seen so far is about 175 guests and about 28 members for any 24 hour period. To any of you who have been promoting the forum you have my sincerest Thank You! I appreciate any of you who have placed a link in your signature or who have recommended us to your friends or in posts on other forums. To see more about how we are doing check out a little comparision that I am posting in the Board Status thread. Again Thank You All!Regards, Halenar Frosthelm (David) |
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Post by Necromancer on Apr 14, 2015 7:20:34 GMT -5
Wow, 41 countries... that's pretty impressive, Admin Pete! Too bad you have no access to that information for this board as well, that would certainly be interesting. You could always start a "Where you at" thread as over at the ODD74 board, although that would limit the information to the people posting in such a thread so it's not quite the same. Anyway, cool to see the forum prospering and I'm glad to be a member here! Our cult grows...  |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Apr 14, 2015 9:37:45 GMT -5
I would like to point at that I'm not in a country, but in a territory.  |
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 14, 2015 13:14:20 GMT -5
I would like to point at that I'm not in a country, but in a territory. Which one, if I may ask? |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Apr 14, 2015 17:47:31 GMT -5
Well, technically it is now the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. But when people go out protesting they bring out the old colonial flag.  |
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 14, 2015 20:20:48 GMT -5
Well, technically it is now the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. But when people go out protesting they bring out the old colonial flag. Cool, great to know you can access us from their. I would never have guessed! |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Apr 15, 2015 6:35:59 GMT -5
Dude. Seriously. They have broadband.  |
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 15, 2015 7:29:26 GMT -5
Dude. Seriously. They have broadband.  |
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 15, 2015 7:46:42 GMT -5
The list of countries or other political regions. United States United Kingdom Ukraine Tunisia Switzerland Sweden Spain South Korea South Africa Singapore Serbia Russia Romania Poland Philippines Oman Morocco Mexico Norway New Zealand Netherlands Latvia Japan Italy Ireland Indonesia India Hong Kong Greece Germany Georgia France Finland Estonia Dominica Denmark China Canada Brazil Australia Argentina And a whole bunch of people from someplace called the Unknown Region. |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Apr 15, 2015 10:28:56 GMT -5
The list of countries or other political regions. [lotsaplaces] And a whole bunch of people from someplace called the Unknown Region. We totally should go adventuring in the Unknown Regions. Think of the gp! Think of the XP! |
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 15, 2015 16:12:45 GMT -5
The list of countries or other political regions. [lotsaplaces] And a whole bunch of people from someplace called the Unknown Region. We totally should go adventuring in the Unknown Regions. Think of the gp! Think of the XP! I'm with you! Who said there are no frontiers left! |
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Post by Necromancer on Apr 16, 2015 3:27:47 GMT -5
We totally should go adventuring in the Unknown Regions. Think of the gp! Think of the XP! I'm with you! Who said there are no frontiers left! "The Unknown Regions", huh...? Well, that sounds about right for a board like this... I'm with you guys! Let's go! |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 21, 2015 10:21:54 GMT -5
As some of you know I have a blog The Ruins of Murkhill - True OD&D - Original Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Worlds. The long name is for the benefit of search engines otherwise I would just call it The Ruins of Murkhill. This morning if you search google for "OD&D" it comes up as the number seven result. For some time now it has trended between 2 and 10 in the list of top 10 results for that search. On the other hand this forum still does not show in the top 100 results yet. At any rate the thing that I think is cool is that the analytics show you page views per country for the top ten countries on a rolling basis. There is also another place that lists the countries but does not show all of them. Well as of today here is the 63 65 66 67 68 75 77 81 85 86 93 98 countries and/or governmental units from which someone has viewed my blog since last November, some of these a major surprise to me: Vietnam
Venezuela
Uruguay
United States
United Kingdom
United Arab Emirates
Ukraine
Turkey
Tunisia
Thailand
Taiwan
Syria
Switzerland
Sweden
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
St. Pierre & Miquelon
Spain
South Korea
South Africa
Slovenia
Singapore
Serbia
Russia
Romania
Réunion
Qatar
Puerto Rico
Portugal
Poland
Philippines
Peru
Panama
Pakistan
Oman
Norway
New Zealand
Netherlands
Nepal
Mozambique
Morocco
Montenegro
Moldova
Mexico
Mauritius
Malta
Malaysia
Macedonia (FYROM)
Luxembourg
Lithuania
Latvia
Kuwait
Kenya
Kazakhstan
Jordan
Japan
Italy
Israel
Ireland
Iran
Indonesia
India
Iceland
Hungary
Hong Kong
Guatemala
Greece
Ghana
Germany
Georgia
France
Finland
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Estonia
Ecuador
Dominican Republic
Dominica
Denmark
Czech Republic
Croatia
Côte d’Ivoire
Costa Rica
China
Chile
Canada
Cambodia
Bulgaria
Brazil
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Belgium
Belarus
Bangladesh
Austria
Australia
Argentina
Antigua & Barbuda
Andorra
Algeria |
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Post by hengest on Oct 21, 2015 10:38:16 GMT -5
This is super cool.
To my knowledge, tabletop RPGs are not really a big thing in Russia yet. They went straight to LARP stuff in their own way. I'd be very happy to see this change.
On the other hand, a quick google found more translations and player stuff for tabletop RPGs in Russian than I ever saw before. So maybe my wish is already coming true.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 21, 2015 18:56:10 GMT -5
I can guess where those Hong Kong hits come from. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 21, 2015 21:52:24 GMT -5
I can guess where those Hong Kong hits come from. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 22, 2015 7:48:06 GMT -5
I updated the first post, since in the last 24 hours I have added two more countries Turkey and Peru. This just fascinates me, I want to know what games they play in all these places, do they play D&D and what version. I would love to know if any of them blog about gaming and what other blogs they read and are there any blogs in their countries.
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 22, 2015 8:59:47 GMT -5
On a little side note here are the top ten countries that are viewing my blog all time. Wish I could get that kind of data for the forum.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Russia
France
Canada
Australia
Spain
Ukraine
Latvia
I find it amazing that Russia comes in ahead of Canada and that Canada is not second or third. I am even more amazed that the Ukraine and Latvia are on the top ten list all time. Now compare this to the top ten list for the past month.
United States
Russia
Ukraine
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Canada
Ireland
Italy
Australia
Russia and Ukraine are second and third over the last month.
In both cases I am surprised that the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are not two through four in one order or another. And then the list for the last week is even more odd.
United States
Russia
Brazil
France
Argentina
Germany
Peru
Canada
Luxembourg
Australia
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Post by Necromancer on Oct 22, 2015 9:16:14 GMT -5
Vanity or not, I think it's cool (and rather impressive, if I might add)! Have an Exalt! |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 22, 2015 9:28:17 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by waysoftheearth on Oct 22, 2015 19:07:24 GMT -5
We can't assume all these visitors logged are people. Most of the Eastern European visitors are very likely scam bots  |
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Post by tetramorph on Oct 22, 2015 20:38:15 GMT -5
What is a scam bot, anyway?
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Post by waysoftheearth on Oct 22, 2015 23:43:05 GMT -5
I don't know if it's an officially recognised phrase; I meant to refer to the huge ecology of web crawlers, spiders, bots, robots, trawlers, scripts, programs, processes, and so on that are constantly visiting every reachable place on the internet, for legitimate or nefarious purposes.
There are many more robots using the internet than there are people; 212 billion connected devices by 2020 is what some marketeers are predicting. Once upon a time there was an internet of content. Then there was an internet of people. Now there is an internet of things.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2015 1:00:07 GMT -5
An Internet of things ...
... how Halloween-time appropriate ...
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 23, 2015 7:29:07 GMT -5
Whether all of the countries represent people or bots is not really important in the scheme of things. I have no real way to tell them apart and it is way more fun to think of them as all being people. What is important to me is that my blog consistently is in the top ten search results for OD&D and some days I have seen as high as 5 of the top ten results be my blog and up to four posts as search results. There are other searches where it is also showing up in the top ten so it is getting some exposure. One neat things is that I can see the search terms that brought people to my blog, as well as the referring sites. What is kind of fun about that is that I have sites that I have never heard of that are sometimes sending me a lot of traffic. There are a couple of D&D blogs that send traffic to me and I have searched their sites and can not find a single reference to my blog on their site so I am at a loss as to how they are sending traffic my way. |
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Oct 23, 2015 8:54:07 GMT -5
I would go with what is more fun myself!
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 23, 2015 13:05:51 GMT -5
Today Chile was added to the list! Person or bot?
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Post by restless on Oct 23, 2015 14:05:41 GMT -5
Today Chile was added to the list! Person or bot? There are a lot of overseas Tor exit nodes and misconfigured proxies operating wide open; there's a reasonable chance that at least some of them are those and being used by others in the more common countries. (For a long time I used a download bot through a "mis"configured (I am sure the folks who set it up that way knew exactly what they were doing so they could use it too) device that had a SOCKS5 proxy running on it in a Brazilian government lab. That was some nice bandwidth!) |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 24, 2015 20:37:53 GMT -5
Lots of gamers in South America. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 30, 2015 11:39:58 GMT -5
Added Montenegro today. |
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