Genjuro said:
This brings up an interesting thing that we should pay attention to.
As the car is released and more press on the car is written, we are going to have a large number of new people with a variety of knowledge about the car....
RANDY.... What does this mean for the structure of elisetalk? I'm guessing that already you have seen your bandwidth usage rise with the recent press visit to LCU.
Are we going to have to have a newbie FAQ section, and are we going to rebrand some of the message areas?
etc....
December 2003 had a ton of hits. March 2004 was also large. But in general, our hits have increased to over 100,000 per day (not unique) or over 38,000 page views per day. Right now bandwidth is harder to calculate (though possible) because the forum is hosted on two servers...it will soon be moving to a third server.
There has been some plans for longer term as we expected growth. Here are some things.
1. As we get more users and more posts, we need to become better about posting in the correct forums. Someone looking for a specific thing should be able to look in the correct forum. This may require more moderation than we are currently doing. My philosophy was to not worry too much about it and not get all crazy about people posting in the general forum. For those paying attention, I normally have been waiting for the thread to drop a little, and then I move it. Almost all magazine reviews for example. I eventually moved to the Reviews forum.
One thing that would not surprise me is eventually more activity in the regional forums as the number of users grow.
2. Yes, we may need a few more subforums. Not sure about that. There are a couple things in work that will also require at least a couple more forums... more about that soon.
3. As soon as I have time, I plan on collating some data and making a couple of pages that contain those things. Yes, we will need a FAQ section. Not much need before since there is not a lot of first hand data. But a section that would cover tires and rims, struts, fire extinguishers, other modifications. It could be come pretty extensive. I would welcome some help here.