ALT.NET keeps on ticking

I can't say I've seen a community with more spirit, enthusiasm, opinion, views, experience, concealed lizards, logging chains, and gumption than the ALT.NET community.

Stats for the Yahoo! Groups mailing list, which only started 2 months ago on October 7th:

  • Almost 2000 posts on October (remember it was about 23 days of posting)
  • Over 3200 posts in November
  • Already 1300+ posts in December (and we're only 7 days in)

Prediction (based on velocity) for December: 6250+ (yes, I actually used my Scrum Velocity tool [a spreadsheet] to calculate this). That's insane (the number of posts, not the fact that I used a spreadsheet for this blog entry).

Anyways, keep the firehose going. We're all still trying to figure out how to consume this information without blowing our heads off. Just waiting to see if we'll get a special community away, "Most Active Yahoo! Groups List... Ever"

PS we've been doing some updates on the Wiki site as well so feel free to drop by and be a reader or writer there too!

 

1 Comment

  • The mailing list needs an official secretary (or team of secretaries)! I would love to see periodic summary emails or "end of thread" emails.

    Even better would be a summary posted to a blog every now and then. So if people don't want to follow the day to day conversations, you could still learn by subscribing to the blog.

    Personally, I find participating in the threads fun, but overwhelming in the sheer mass of emails.

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