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December 9, 2009
Question

forum statistics

  • December 9, 2009
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Somebody was asking http://forums.adobe.com/message/2449539#2449539

about some forum statistics so I thought I should present them

Primary product specialization of moderators;

Adobe employee               27
Adobe technology             21
Macromedia technology        11

(I did not check the Adobe employees for duplicate accounts.)

To put some perspective on those numbers, here are the 10 most active

public forums in terms of total messages:

DreamWeaver               300461
Flash                     112078
Photoshop Lightroom       108742
Flex                      108245
ActionScript 1 and 2      104993
Premiere Pro               78223
InDesign                   76827
Photoshop Windows          67554
Photoshop Macintosh        52019
Action Script 3            49915

Overall, over 50% of total messages in the public forums is in forums

dedicated to a Macromedia based technology. If we then take into

consideration the messages that are in general forums like this one

(almost 1% of total messages is in this forum) or in language based

forums (Spanish etc.) or for products released after the merger, the

percentage of messages about "old school" Adobe products is a clear

minority.

And then I am not even arguing that LiveCycle is not an "old school"

Adobe product

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    December 9, 2009

    jochemd wrote:

    To put some perspective on those numbers, here are the 10 most active

    public forums in terms of total messages:

    
    DreamWeaver               300461
    Flash                     112078
    Photoshop Lightroom       108742
    Flex                      108245
    ActionScript 1 and 2      104993
    Premiere Pro               78223
    InDesign                   76827
    Photoshop Windows          67554
    Photoshop Macintosh        52019
    Action Script 3            49915
    

    Overall, over 50% of total messages in the public forums is in forums

    dedicated to a Macromedia based technology. If we then take into

    consideration the messages that are in general forums like this one

    (almost 1% of total messages is in this forum) or in language based

    forums (Spanish etc.) or for products released after the merger, the

    percentage of messages about "old school" Adobe products is a clear

    minority.

    Which means what exactly?  That the "old school" product forums are less important because their numbers are down?  Perhaps the numbers are down due to the software and all of the folks who left in disgust.

    Kami_Bambiraptor
    Participating Frequently
    December 9, 2009

    Perhaps the numbers are down due to the software and all of the folks who left in disgust.

    The statistics given would be more informative if the 'pre-merger' numbers (which are probably not available) were also given as reference.

    Inspiring
    December 10, 2009

    Kami Bambiraptor wrote:

    The statistics given would be more informative if the 'pre-merger' numbers (which are probably not available) were also given as reference.

    If you mean the numbers from before the Adobe Macromedia merger then I don't think they are available. If you mean the numbers from before the forums merger (i.e. the numbers as per April 1st 2009), then those numbers could be obtained. I don't have them at hand, but any registered user of these forums can extract them from the getMessageCountByCommunityIDAndFilter() method of the forumService webservice.