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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by citricsquid on Friday July 06, 2012 @08:32AM (#4207448)
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

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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by qwertyz on Friday July 06, 2012 @08:49AM (#4207483)
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.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by lumberjack on Friday July 06, 2012 @09:56AM (#4207703)
A lot of anons are actively blocking online tracking technologies, much more than the usual 1% that run NoScript.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday July 06, 2012 @10:24AM (#4207825)
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)

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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by runn1ng on Friday July 06, 2012 @12:08PM (#4208335)
Most of the Tor relays are banned on 4chan, though.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday July 06, 2012 @12:10PM (#4208345)
Ah, that's true.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by smackfu on Friday July 06, 2012 @09:27AM (#4207588)
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.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday July 06, 2012 @10:22AM (#4207818)
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.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by justinhj on Friday July 06, 2012 @11:01AM (#4208008)
A game that is fun and popular is by definition well designed I would say.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday July 06, 2012 @11:09AM (#4208049)
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.
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by kokoge on Friday July 06, 2012 @11:25AM (#4208135)
Could you tell what changes exactly are you talking about?
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Re:About 4chans current stats and infrastructure by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday July 06, 2012 @11:28AM (#4208142)
Hunger, biomes (although that's an old change now), Endermen, end game.
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