I am a new user. I have been lurking on this list for about three months. Now
I am unsubscribing. SE is better for my needs; discussion here is mostly over
my head. I am grateful that qgis-user exists, and I can re-join when I need to.
The discussion on this thread ("Closure of forum") helped me know how to
proceed. I learned about the forum as it was closing, because of this
discussion, and so I'm neutral about its closure. I'm just happy to have SE.
I agree that there is no easy, clear way for a new user to orientate to the
software or to the online resources. But is has been possible, and that is
enough for me.
Thanks and ciao,
- Gray
On May 9, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
> I think there has been a monthly growth in the use of the SE for some time
> now. This makes me wonder how the increase observed below compares to the
> longer term average monthly increase. Also, one would need to consider other
> means of communication, e..g, the email list might have absorbed part of the
> Q&A 'traffic'
>
> I agree that it is very important (too) how well the SE functions in terms of
> questions being answered and whether it functions for both questions asked by
> relative beginners and for more advanced users. For me personally, the forum
> felt like an easier way of communicating. On the other hand, the email list
> offers much if not all of that functionality by providing an easy and
> informal way of asking questions or discussing specific topics (like this one
> :-)).
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at it from the other angle, there appear to have been ~100 threads
> with replies made to them in the "Help" section of the forum in March and
> about the same number for February. So the increase in the GIS.Stackexchange
> seems to coincide with the former usage of the forums with Nathan's stats.
>
> For another (probably more important) metric:
> On average about 20-30% of the threads in that forum didn't get any
> replies at all. How many of the GIS.Stackexchange questions are actually
> being answered? There appear to be 88 tagged unanswered QGIS questions:
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/qgis
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> From: Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]>
> To: Nick Hopton <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: 09/05/2012 10:22
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on.
> Sent by: [email protected]
>
>
>
> So the stats are in for March, April, and some of May, using the query
> http://data.stackexchange.com/gis/query/68778/how-many-posts-per-month-for-a-tag?TagName=qgis
>
> The results are:
>
> 02-2012 = 346
> 03-2012 = 400
> 04-2012 = 556
> 05-2012 = 596
>
> Some pretty sharp increases there.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nick Hopton <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the last month of its existence about 130 new topics were created on the
> forum. It appears that during the same period about 54 new topics tagged
> 'QGIS' were created on Stack Exchange (SE) GIS. It is of course obvious that
> there has been an increase in QGIS questions on SE following the closure of
> the forum, but I think it is unlikely that all, or possibly even most, of
> the people who used to post on the forum have shifted to SE. However, for
> obvious reasons there can be no firm evidence to support this proposition;
> usage statistics are not enough.
>
> I wish it well and I'm sure that QGIS at SE will suit many of the more
> experienced QGIS users very nicely, but I'm also sure it will also put off
> many newcomers and less experienced users who need a friendly place of first
> contact where they can ask their questions. But that's enough, I seem to be
> a lone voice in this discussion so I won't push things any further.
>
> Nick.
>
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