Failing Enterprise Blog 2006-05

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The Admin talks about our online community

Wednesday, May 24th

One of the nice things about web-based software development is that you can changes things easily and take advantage of continuous improvement.  It's nice to be able to experiment and explore new options; it's a fast way to keep making the site better.

For the past month, we've experimented with requiring registration and logging in before posting on the discussion board.  As I suspected, this requirement reduced the quantity of posts and also reduced some of the more objectionable material on the board.

It's been a month and I want to end the experiment and see if we can make it work without requiring registration.  Even though registering doesn't reveal anything more about you, many current Enterprise employees are still concerned about maintaining their anonymity here.

So let's give it a try with mandatory registration turned off and see how it goes.  Your feedback welcomed at comments2 ((at)) failingenterprise ((dot)) com

Monday, May 1st

The new traffic statistics are in.  In April, we were visited by 19,184 unique IP addresses and served 793,802 pages, both of which are new records.  For the past 14 months, we've had a 12% per month exponential growth rate, and we're still the second most popular corporate complaint site on the Internet, ahead of sites for Wal-Mart, Starbucks, McDonald's, etc.

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