Congratulations! And I welcome the new updates! Very nice! I replied also to the post on the blog, but somehow anonymous (it showed my facebook photo?) well, doesn't matter...

Where is the live-updating graph in the above post that reflects the stats? ;-) Would that be possible to have a scheduled wolfram cloud produce a PNG and save it somewhere with a fixed filename (or upload?), and link this (changing) png in the forum?

I'd would love to play around with the data, but it is probably huge! PDF (probability density functions) of numbers of replies per users, number of starting discussion, number of votes gotten/given... Connectivity of members (by replies). But also temporal dynamics as you showed in the blog posts could be nice to see. Especially with the new functionality DateHistogram[ dates, "Minute",DateReduction->"Day"] to see the daily dynamics of the website (or week). Do people give more likes in the(ir) morning, or rather in the(ir) evening...

@Vitaliy Kaurov

Feature request 1: notification emails like: "Someone has commented on a discussion you're following on Wolfram Community" are all the same, so (at least in Gmail) they all go to a single email thread in my box. Adding the specific topic as the subject:

Wolfram Community - Discussion comment - [subject of the discussion]

would be very nice.

Feature request 2: The ability to 'close' a discussion (and 'bury' them) might be a good idea; sometimes you see discussions open up again; by someone asking a new question in an old thread. Once a good answer is given, the person who started the discussion (or an Admin) should be able to close it. Or after 3 months of no new replies... There are different strategies that could be followed... This is especially useful for discussion about bugs: once they are solved in a new version the discussion could be closed with a final reply: "solved in Mathematica version X". And will also be useful in the very very easy questions that are often asked.

Also, @Vitaliy Kaurov I think for the future a meaningful reputations system is in order plus some more consistent user stats in profiles and on posts.

They did a great job! I'm not sure deletion is a good idea, it could simply be ignored by the search engine. That way, links to the topic still work and people who replied still have their (future) reputation.

@Sander Huisman I think so too, nice! How did you get the data?

Hi Vitaliy,

I do not know how Sander is doing this, but this could keep you updated:

membersold = 0; RunScheduledTask[
 membersnew = 
  ToExpression[
   StringDelete[
    StringTake[
     StringSplit[
       Import["http://community.wolfram.com/people", "Text"], 
       "People on Community"][[1]], {-47, -42}], " "]]; 
 If[membersnew != membersold, 
  SendMail["From" -> "XXXXXXXX@yahoo.com", 
   "To" -> "XXXXXXXX@abdn.ac.uk", 
   "Subject" -> "A new member has joined.", 
   "Body" -> 
    "Now there are " <> ToString[membersnew] <> 
     " members in the Community.", "Server" -> "smtp.mail.yahoo.com", 
   "UserName" -> "XXXXXXXl@yahoo.com", "Password" -> "XXXXXXXX", 
   "EncryptionProtocol" -> "SSL"]]; membersold = membersnew, 10]

where the XXXXX have to be replaced by the appropriate strings.

Cheers,

Marco

PS: I haven't really been running this for long. So there might be bugs.

Dear All,

regarding possible new features, I would enjoy a feature where I could follow certain people - either be alerted of everything they post, or every time they start a new thread. Some people always post really interesting things, and this feature would help me to make sure that I do not overlook anything.

Cheers,

Marco

@Marco Thiel we are already working on this. @Sander Huisman that would be neat indeed but many of our users asked for email exactly. I think maybe because some people do not come to the site often and their email is a single agglomerating place for all around notifications besides Community even. Implementing both would be nice but it would not be a simple development and it would take some time.

Well, 10009 now!

@Vitaliy Kaurov I found a small bug on the website. When creating a new discussion, in the "Groups to post in" bar, if you type "Wolfram" it shows a partial list, and the rest is 'hidden':

It looks like a finite list, and we can't scroll any further, but you can scroll further:

Above is the minimum position of the scrollbar. So that is kinda strange. Perhaps force the scrollbars to always show:

http://jsfiddle.net/simurai/UsvLN/

And perhaps the entire parent div should be used for the list.

Perfect!

We are using MarkDown editor, which does not have direct syntax for this. Yet you can achieve this with:

<del>test</del>
<s>test</s>

• works
• test