You bring up some very interesting problems and a good suggestion.

At the risk of stating the obvious, any solution creating more than a little server load would have to be tossed out. That means an external server and cooperation with the Monastery developers.

The popularity changes issue is a feature. It is possible to give exactly those statistics you mentioned, daily (within 24 hours of posting), weekly, and monthly. I would be interested to know when the average falloff for nodes is, i.e. when the votes stop trickling and being a slow drip. You could then generate something like "these are the thread topics that keep coming up" or "these topics were mentioned once and never again", along with the popularity of the threads.

I think the setup would have to be a bit like jcwren's Perl Monks Statistics site, a part of the Monastery. I don't see where metainformation about the site could be anything other than an extension of it. :)

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Allolex

In reply to Re: Re: Tracking popularity of Perl discussion topics by allolex
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