Some interesting stats about WP Questions:
168 people have asked a question.
196 people have posted an attempt at an answer.
84 people have received money for their answers.
1,351 people have joined the site.
So, about 1 in 8 (12.4%) of the members ask questions, and about 1 in 7 (14.5%) post answers (there is some overlap, [...]
Archive for July 2010
WP Questions: 1 in 8 ask questions
Is there a better way to format code?
We just got this suggestion via email:
I have a suggestion to make on the usability front. Right now, the < code > tag contents comes with a horizontal scrollbar. It’s pretty annoying to view the code that way.
How about changing it, to like the ones on wordpress blogs. By default, the overflow would be hidden [...]
A few small changes to our sites
We’ve made 3 small adjustments to our sites:
1.) To make it easier for you to browse through the archives, we’ve put in pagination of the archives on the front page. You can now click back through the whole history of the site.
2.) Log in to read answers. The answers are still free to all, [...]
Job Post: Ruby on Rails engineer needed
Details below. Contact Rockman Ha, do not contact me.
From: Rockman Ha
Date: 7/28/2010
Subject: Gilt Groupe Ruby Engineer Opportunity
Gilt is a leader in the hottest area of ecommerce: flash sales in apparel and luxury goods. We are blue chip venture backed, already achieved 300 mm scales, 300 employees, growing rapidly and building out our senior team.
All executives [...]
WP Questions passed the $6,000 mark
I’m pleased to see that WP Questions has passed the $6,000 mark:
We passed the $5,000 mark just 3 weeks ago.
These are our current top experts:
A few rules of decorum for our sites
I’m responding to an exchange between one of WP Questions’s experts and one of the people asking a question. I deleted the exchange because I thought it was unconstructive. I will state here some rules that I hope everyone will remember when posting on any of our sites:
You are not the moderator. Only Darren Hoyt [...]
Why are we not adding features faster?
Darren Hoyt and I have an account on Basecamp which we use to keep track of every bug and every feature request. Here are some of items on there now:
Build an admin interface that allows admin users to edit the top banner area, the sidebar, and the footer.
Feedback from member: please move the ‘Select as [...]
New places we are advertising
Below are some of the new places where we are advertising WP Questions. The advertising seems to be working, as we just had our best week ever, in terms of the number of questions asked.
Web And Designers
The Web Blend
Blogger Plugins
Dynamic WP
PVM Garage
Smashing Hub
DesignM AG
Picky Site
Rich Works
1st Web Designer
How many people are joining WP Questions each week?
Yesterday I created a chart showing how many questions WP Questions were getting each week, for the last 20 weeks. Today I created a chart showing how many new members were joining the site each week, for the last 20 weeks.
How many questions get posted to WP Questions each week?
I’ve been meaning to generate some charts, to show the activity on our sites. Darren and I are of course interested, and yet we’ve no way to know, except when I dig into the database and mine some data with custom queries. If we had some charts, it would be easier for us to see [...]
