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Hi All, Those of you who've been around for a season or more will know that around this time of the year we usually call for blogging volunteers. This is an opportunity for you to share your application stories with the rest of the world. The idea is that your blogs will be useful for the future crop of students and also a cathartic process for you. You can see the past few years worth of blogs over at the blog section. If you are interested please reply here and I'll turn on the feature for your account after making sure you're not too crazy :-).

I can't believe it's October already ... here are the stats: Top 10 Posters Sigaba 85 George2248 82 ktel 70 orst11 68 runonsentence 66 dimanche0829 56 Timshel 49 InquilineKea 43 Eigen 43 gellert 41 Congrats Sigaba! Yet another newcomer, welcome. By the number(s) In total there were 3,514 posts made this month (2,547 in September 2010). There were 133,302 visits, 77,189 Unique Visitors and 533,419 pageviews to the forum.

Top 10 Posters runonsentence 153 ktel 118 Eigen 81 Timshel 71 rising_star 66 dimanche0829 61 Kitkat 61 bdon19 60 Sigaba 58 ThePoorHangedFool 54 Congrats runonsentence! Another newcomer, welcome. By the number(s) In total there were 4,599 posts made this month (2,152 in August 2010). There were 132,738 visits, 76,105 Unique Visitors and 577,356 pageviews to the forum.

Done!

Hi Guys, I'll be putting some patches on the forum this Sunday morning. Any early birds may have trouble accessing the forum at that time.

Top 10 Posters ZeeMore21 218 runonsentence 147 ktel 140 Strangefox 137 Eigen 128 Mal83 110 rising_star 89 Aaron McDevitt 88 newms 78 Behavioral 75 Congrats ZeeMore21! Welcome to the club. By the number(s) In total there were 5,276 posts made this month (1,735 in July 2010). Visitor stats not available in July due to an error on my part .

OK. The blog is back. And I've reverted to the previous +/- system, contradicting what I said earlier. We'll continue to roll with this.

Sorry the dislike button probably isn't coming back. You can close the sidebar using the little cross (somewhere top right) then all of the space will be dedicated to the fora.

Use the blue(?) dot/circle next to (left of) the topic title.

Emoticons should be there. You may have to re-crop your avatar to make it look right.

Same here. But I like to live on the edge You can "like" and dislike (but only if you have previously liked). I've fixed the favicon. Any other requests/comments?

Still work in progress ... but I don't see any harm in turning it back on whilst I do some tweaks.

Hi All, I'll be upgrading the forum s/w later today. The forum will be offline for a while. You have been warned!!

Top 10 Posters Strangefox 132 newms 95 Eigen 81 ZeeMore21 74 hejduk 72 runonsentence 57 Bison 49 kroms 43 StrangeLight 41 Mal83 41 GardeningGrad 40 Two Espressos 39 Congrats Strangefox! (I don't know why I find your username so amusing, but I do ) By the numbers In total there were 3,660 posts made this month (1,519 in June 2010). There were 148,783 visits, 82,764 Unique Visitors and 589,388 Pageviews to the forum. Welcome to sleepy town.

You are a strange fox...

Top 10 Posters newms 81 neuropsych76 64 runonsentence 64 Strangefox 57 Mal83 54 far_to_go 50 Eigen 50 mechengr2000 43 spctle342 43 ZeeMore21 40 Congrats newms! (wait... haven't we been here before?) By the numbers In total there were 5,582 posts made this month (3,233 in May 2010). There were 220,352 visits, 98,549 Unique Visitors and 904,231 Pageviews to the forum.

Only one way to fix that.

Top 10 Posters kroms 155 jendoly 143 newms 118 psyentist4good 114 Bukharan 100 Eigen 89 farnsworth 88 IRdreams 84 crimsonengineer87 83 Mal83 77 Congrats kroms! 3rd to 1st place. By the numbers In total there were 15,040 posts made this month (9,138 in April 2010). There were 444,438 visits, 141,774 Unique Visitors and 2,271,802 Pageviews to the forum.

Already asked in freak-out.

Fixed

Just so you all know I am watching this topic closely. As for the previously promised graph of how the forum usage looks, here's the past 4 admit seasons. The graph starts at 10/1/2007 and ends yesterday, 4/21/2011. Healthy growth: in the week of Oct 1 2007 we had 107 visitors. Last week we had 115,107 visitors. Here's the same thing with page views instead of visitors. From a mere 240k pageviews in Feb/Mar 2007 to almost 1M this time around.