Increased number of visits the last few weeks

[DaFool]

Most users ever online was 134 on Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:25 pm

A new record! I know there are tools to track where incoming referrals come from.

I am just wondering what are the factors for the increased popularity, or if it is just a culmination of various factors finally reaching critical mass.

Could it be the presence at Visual News? The Katawa Shoujo project? The new integration of Ren'Py package into Debian distribution? A variety of other referrals, (including the French lady's pitch for the Phoenix Wright port and Bluemist blog mentioning he tried Ren'Py at one point.)

[yvanc]

it means more people are interested in Visual Novel development ^_^ ahehehehehehhe

thats a good thing since community are starting to get lively around here

[DaFool]

Oh! I just bumped into a course outline from the Tallinn University of Technology. It's a Visual Novel Project based multimedia course, and they are officially using Ren'Py. (Google: Tallinn Ren'Py and you will see the course outline... I LOL'ed at the screenshot of Ren'Py on the last page.)

[yvanc]

Oh! I just bumped into a course outline from the Tallinn University of Technology. It's a Visual Novel Project based multimedia course, and they are officially using Ren'Py. (Google: Tallinn Ren'Py and you will see the course outline... I LOL'ed at the screenshot of Ren'Py on the last page.)

wooohooo....

you got link? please share

[DaFool]

http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=en&q ... arch&meta=

[yvanc]

ahehehheheheheheheheh


thats cool ^_^

oh, theres blade engine in the reference.

ahehehehehehe

[musical74]

YAY!!! I'm an alice-class member now!! <wonders who Alice is...>

I THINK the reason for increased visits is Ren'py is becoming more popular and more people are looking at the forums as a result of it. If that is the case, we owe PyTom a great Kudos!!!!

[PyTom]

Actually, the cool thing about that Tallinn thing is that it's a published academic paper, not just a course outline. It appears to have been published in MIPRO, which appears to be an Eastern-European conference sponsored by the IEEE. (It's hard to tell, since the website is missing some important information... like what MIPRO stands for.)

http://www.mipro.hr/epress_nr2007.html

If I'm reading this page right, the paper appears to have won an award. Good for them... I wish I had been a co-author.

Anyway, I think the maximum # of viewers number is a bit bogus, probably the result of some sort of insane search robot or web proxy or something. I put google analytics on the site a while back, and have some decent results from it:

- We average about 190 visitors a day.
- 46% of visitors come from bookmarks, 39% come from other sites, 14% come from search engines.
- Continent-sized regions, in order: The Americas, Europe, Asia (including SE Asia), Australia/Oceania, Africa.
- We have one guy who's viewing the site from St. Denis, in the Indian ocean.
- We've had no visitors from Wyoming or Iceland.

[mikey]

YAY!!! I'm an alice-class member now!! <wonders who Alice is...>

The blonde girl from Tales Of Lemma, at the very beginning.

[Adorya]

- We have one guy who's viewing the site from St. Denis, in the Indian ocean.

If you remember some threads month ago, it was mentionned in on of them that I was a frenchy living 12k km from France....so it's over there

[Chisakura]

Oh! How lovely, Visual Novels are getting more popular! >w< Last time I checked it said...

Most users ever online was 343 on Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:59 pm

Whopee!

[Blue Lemma]

We've had no visitors from Wyoming....

No big loss (Sorry, I like to make fun of Wyoming... My dad went to college there actually ^_^ )

Anyway, I agree with the bot assessment. Either that or a misguided DoS attack

[kara24601]

Wow, that's some cool information there.