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January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« on: January 31, 2009, 04:37:07 PM »
I was just reading our board statistics, January 2009 has been a record month for RUA. Check these statistics out.........

  • More topics created than any other month before, by a wide margin.
  • The most posts ever in any month, by a wide margin.
  • The most new members since April 2007, the month the board started.
  • 48,000 more page views than the previous best month.

It gets better......

I was checking the statistics of other forums with a similar genre recently. Most don't make their detailed statistics public of course, but I monitored one or two over a random week using their published totals to calculate and compare. Our topic and post count was the highest.

There is more.......

I checked the domain creation date of other forums with a similar genre, and calculated their average monthly post and topic counts since creation based on their current totals. Guess what? We were MILES ahead!

Other forums have a slightly higher total post count than us, but then again, they are years older than us. I reckon that makes much of their content somewhat outdated. The Russian women situation is much different today than it was five or six years ago.

As mentioned in yesterdays Newsletter, by my reckoning, that makes us the busiest, most up-to-date and relevant Russian women information and discussion forum on the internet!  :party0031:

That is something of which we can all be proud! Thank you once more to all our members and mods for making the forum what it is.  tiphat
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2009, 04:42:11 PM »
Well done Manny and team  :party0011:

Long live RUA  :party0011:

But it is up to us the members/ admin to keep it current and up to date, and not get to involved in what the good old days were like!!!!!


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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2009, 02:40:38 PM »
What a great way to start 09! :party0011:
I'd like to post a thankyou to all our members here at RUA for making this forum the best RW/UW discussion board on the net. :bow: tiphat

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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2009, 02:41:48 PM »
Our newsletter went out yesterday; that traffic combined with yesterdays radio show traffic crashed the forum last night and caused a database error.  :duh:

Thankfully, our tech Greyscales got us fixed up again pretty quickly.  :bow:
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2009, 02:25:50 PM »
congrats Manny! I just got back from Russia, man, good to be home in Sunny Florida! But it was a good trip, another love connection made  :party0011:
Glad to see this forum is doing so well. Da zdravstvuet RUA!

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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2009, 10:45:46 PM »
Manny, congratulations!  This is a great achievement and I can only imagine how much work was invested into the board by you and the team.  Keep it up!  :THUB:
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2009, 02:55:18 AM »

 Thank you once more to all our members and mods for making the forum what it is.  tiphat


Good to know my 5 GBP haven't been wasted (though I wouldn't have transferred them if the banner would say "Contribute to RUA running costs" - and not "Buy admin a beer"! - from the very beginning  :-\ )
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2009, 03:04:38 AM »
Our newsletter went out yesterday; that traffic combined with yesterdays radio show traffic crashed the forum last night and caused a database error.  :duh:

Thankfully, our tech Greyscales got us fixed up again pretty quickly.  :bow:


There's a newsletter?  Never received one.   :GRRRR:
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2009, 06:15:41 AM »
One or two other people said that too, I think GregK didn't get it either. I wonder how many others didn't land. Hmmm. I guess you have checked your trash/spam folder?
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2009, 06:38:05 AM »
Manny,

Did not arrive here either, and it is not in spam box / bulk mail  ::)

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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2009, 08:41:39 AM »
Manny, did you get "congrats" post cards from Dan and KenC? Where is KenC by the way? haven't seen him posting in a long time?

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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2009, 04:30:38 PM »
One or two other people said that too, I think GregK didn't get it either. I wonder how many others didn't land. Hmmm. I guess you have checked your trash/spam folder?

It's not anywhere in my email account.
andrewfi says ''Proximity is almost no guarantee of authority" and "in many cases, distance gives a better picture with less emotional and subjective input."

That means I'm a subject matter expert on all things Russia, Ukraine and UK.

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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2009, 02:20:48 AM »
Maybe I didnt tick all the membergroups when I sent it.  ???

We will see if the spring one arrives I guess.

No Dan didnt send congratulations Ed, I think I am off his Christmas card list now.  :chuckle:
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2009, 01:08:39 PM »
If you do get something don't shake it and you might douse it in water before opening it.

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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2009, 02:35:03 PM »
As i read in the "Stats" March surpassed January's Record!!!!! ;D  :party0011:
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Re: January 2009 - RUA's Record Month!
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2009, 03:58:10 PM »
As i read in the "Stats" March surpassed January's Record!!!!! ;D  :party0011:

May's forum figures smashed January's and March's record figures.  :party0031:
 
May saw us with the most posts ever in a month, more new members than any month in the last two years and page views the highest ever -  up 60,000 on January!  :o

Looks like we are on fire right now.  ;D

We might cop for a few more members in the next week or so. If anyone is a listener of "Sebastian in the Morning" in CT or the morning "Mancow" show syndicated in 21 states, you may find out why.  :)
Read a trip report from North Korea >>here<< - Read a trip report from South Korea, China and Hong Kong >>here<<

Look what the American media makes some people believe:
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