Quick Site Update!

4 days ago I got my third anniversary badge, reminding me this iteration of MHT has been around ~4 years. That’s now 4 years worth of posts and uploads and I need to upgrade the storage. I’ll be doing that overnight at some point this week to try to minimize disruptions - and give me time to fix anything if I fubar it. Don’t worry, I’ll be creating a backup before I start! Speaking of storage space, here’s some numbers for y’all:

In the past year:
Over 28,100 posts
848 topics
53 new members

In the past month:
271,000 pageviews (record in the past year was December with 397,320)
3,600 user visits
4,300 likes given

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Hats off to you, Jive for making this a nice corner of the internet to hang out.

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How many total members?

429

That’s a lot of lurkers, but just one @Lurker.

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Beyond MU sports, I’ve learned about so many other things through this platform. Craft beer. Gambling. Investment opportunities. And culture. Without HawkTalk, I’d have never learned about The Pole Assassin!

I wonder how Mr. and Mrs. Pole Assassin are doing post Honeymoon…

Plenty of lurkers, but the actives are very active. ~65% of MHT’s monthly active users are also daily active users. A healthy figure is usually anything over 20%.

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OK, I LOL’d at that one.

Back to lurking.

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Thanks for everything you do to manage this site. I’ve turned a lot of hockey parents onto it.

53 new members in a year? We can do better than that. All the other numbers look great.

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Ok, we’re live! I nearly tripled our storage and completed a full update of all the software while I was at it. Apologies for anyone who was just trying to access the site - it was less straightforward than expected and I ended up rolling back to a previous backup at one point. But, we’re set right in time for the start of basketball season and MACtion.

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Thanks

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Jive - great job on the site - great " First Amendment " site for MU sports and other totally unrelated subjects- also great site to provide often much needed assistance to the Athletic program and of course excellent " advice " to our coaches! How can we provide some financial assistance for the site?

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I appreciate the offer, but the athletic department will hopefully better use the money if directed toward them. The site costs less than $40/month to run, which is less than some TV subscriptions. I find more entertainment here anyway.

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