RCGroups Password Security Notice
We are recently aware of a security breach which may result in the disclosure of user information, including email addresses and encrypted passwords.
While users with a password that is not easily guessed have less reason to be concerned, we nonetheless recommend that all RCGroups users change their passwords immediately. You can find some guidelines on what constitutes a strong password here. (For the nerds out there, the passwords were hashed with a per-user salt, meaning that each password would need to be deciphered individually.)
If you used the same password for RCGroups as for your email account, this is a no-no, and we recommend you immediately change your email account password as well. It is a bad idea to share passwords between any two accounts, so please use this opportunity to make sure you aren't doing that.
Please note that RCGroups will NEVER email you to ask for your password. Always be careful clicking links within emails, even if it appears that those emails came from us, as it is possible that the bad guys are trying to trick you.
We're sorry for any inconvenience. We've taken steps to prevent this from happening in the future. We will keep you updated if we learn anything else that could be of value to you.
The RCGroups Labs
While users with a password that is not easily guessed have less reason to be concerned, we nonetheless recommend that all RCGroups users change their passwords immediately. You can find some guidelines on what constitutes a strong password here. (For the nerds out there, the passwords were hashed with a per-user salt, meaning that each password would need to be deciphered individually.)
If you used the same password for RCGroups as for your email account, this is a no-no, and we recommend you immediately change your email account password as well. It is a bad idea to share passwords between any two accounts, so please use this opportunity to make sure you aren't doing that.
Please note that RCGroups will NEVER email you to ask for your password. Always be careful clicking links within emails, even if it appears that those emails came from us, as it is possible that the bad guys are trying to trick you.
We're sorry for any inconvenience. We've taken steps to prevent this from happening in the future. We will keep you updated if we learn anything else that could be of value to you.
The RCGroups Labs
22 million posts
Apparently we've reached 22 million posts in the morning of July 21.
Stats for today, for the history:
Stats for today, for the history:
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Threads: 1,664,002, Posts: 22,045,175, Members: 426,466
400,000 members
Another milestone reached - it appears we've passed 400,000 members mark earlier today.
Reporting stats
Here is another bit of interesting data - the reporting stats for the last 90 days, and for the last 30 days:
Incidentally I have the same stats from October, 2008 saved:
On a related note, the moderation stats from the previous post are now available (and regularly updated) on the dedicated page. It will be linked from the Stats block on the home page and from the site footer.
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1359 unique members reported posts in the last 90 days 546 members reported more than one post in the last 90 days 134 members reported more than 5 posts in the last 90 days 606 unique members reported posts in the last month 187 members reported more than one post in the last month 40 members reported more than 5 posts in the last month
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897 unique members reported posts in the last 90 days 392 members reported more than one post in the last 90 days 99 members reported more than 5 posts in the 90 days 433 unique members reported posts in the last month 149 members reported more than one post in the last month 32 members reported more than 5 posts in the last month
Moderation stats
Here's some data I'm sure many will find interesting: the percentage of posts issued infractions over the last two years.
Addition: Moderation stats page
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| date | posts | warned | percent | +----------+--------+--------+---------+ | Nov 09 | 233675 | 327 | 0.1399 | | Dec 09 | 241561 | 389 | 0.1610 | | Jan 10 | 275810 | 497 | 0.1802 | | Feb 10 | 246552 | 350 | 0.1420 | | Mar 10 | 269818 | 478 | 0.1772 | | Apr 10 | 239590 | 410 | 0.1711 | | May 10 | 230588 | 294 | 0.1275 | | Jun 10 | 226471 | 355 | 0.1568 | | Jul 10 | 237238 | 421 | 0.1775 | | Aug 10 | 256398 | 412 | 0.1607 | | Sep 10 | 248588 | 358 | 0.1440 | | Oct 10 | 249528 | 294 | 0.1178 | | Nov 10 | 262246 | 378 | 0.1441 | | Dec 10 | 274880 | 712 | 0.2590 | | Jan 11 | 302441 | 594 | 0.1964 | | Feb 11 | 276057 | 551 | 0.1996 | | Mar 11 | 296667 | 643 | 0.2167 | | Apr 11 | 268761 | 406 | 0.1511 | | May 11 | 270398 | 447 | 0.1653 | | Jun 11 | 258427 | 445 | 0.1722 | | Jul 11 | 276010 | 441 | 0.1598 | | Aug 11 | 278222 | 484 | 0.1740 | +----------+--------+--------+---------+ | Total |5719926 | 9686 | 0.1693 |
Night Flying heli video thread featured at Hack A Day
This cool night flying video of an heli with blades retrofitted with the RGB LEDs made a post at the Hack A Day blog.
18 million posts
Again missed the exact moment - approximately a week and a day ago RCGroups has gained its 18 millionth post:
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Threads: 1,411,164, Posts: 18,069,129, Members: 359,433
17 million posts
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It appears yesterday or a day before RCGroups has passed 17 million posts!
Current stats:
Current stats:
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Threads: 1,348,658, Posts: 17,012,559, Members: 344,683
A video "thank you" to RCGroups from Google
Google has been sending these hilarious videos to their customers to commemorate the 10th birthday of the Google AdWords program. Since we have been using AdWords, we got one, too. Here's our video. Enjoy!
Most posts in a single day - IV
On November 26, we've passed 10,000 daily posts mark - there were 10,944 posts added that day. Interestingly, today (December 2) we've passed 10,000 mark again with 10,055 total posts. Is it a sign of the pre-holiday times?
To put it in a perspective, it's almost the number of posts the next big RC board has in a whole week!
Attached is a nifty BigBoards.com graph showing the Nov 26 peak.
To put it in a perspective, it's almost the number of posts the next big RC board has in a whole week!
Attached is a nifty BigBoards.com graph showing the Nov 26 peak.
16,000,000 posts
Missed that one again - we reached 16 million posts on October 7th.
Most active forum stats
So we've been running the mod that shows the most active forum on the member blog page for some time now. It calculates the most active forum data on demand when a member blog page is viewed and then stores it in the database. Here are some interesting stats based on that data - the percentage of users which have a forum as their most active, top 50 list:
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%% Forum --- ------ 4.8 Micro Helis 3.3 Parkflyers 2.8 Foamies (Kits) 2.5 Electric Plane Talk 2.2 Coaxial Helicopters 2.2 Batteries and Chargers 2.2 3D Flying 1.9 Aircraft - Electric - Airplanes (FS/W) 1.9 Mini Helis 1.9 Beginner Training Area (Aircraft-Electric) 1.9 Foamies (Scratchbuilt) 1.9 Electric Ducted Fan Jet Talk 1.8 Electric Heli Talk 1.7 Radios 1.6 Power Systems 1.6 R/C Blogs 1.5 Slope 1.5 Scale Electric Planes 1.3 Aircraft - General - Radio Equipment (FS/W) 1.3 Aircraft - Electric - Helis (FS/W) 1.2 Indoor and Micro Models 1.2 Micro RTF 1.2 Foamy EDFs 1.2 Video Piloting (FPV/RPV) 1.2 Aerial Photography 1.1 Electric Warbirds 0.9 Electric Sailplanes 0.9 Aircraft - Fuel - Airplanes (FS/W) 0.9 Scale Boats 0.9 Hand Launch 0.9 Fuel Plane Talk 0.8 Motorcycles 0.8 Cars - Cars and Parts (FS/W) 0.8 Engines 0.7 Aircraft - Sailplanes (FS/W) 0.7 Off-road Cars 0.7 DIY Electronics 0.6 Sport Planes 0.6 GWS (Grand Wing Servo) 0.6 Australia 0.6 Dock Talk 0.6 Pusher Prop Jet Models 0.6 Sailplane Talk 0.6 Flying Wings 0.6 High Performance 0.6 Mexico 0.6 Simulators 0.5
Most active forum and thread in member profile
If you visited a forum powered by phpBB forum software, you probably noticed the "most active forum" and "most active thread" in the member stats (ex. TheProfileBrotherhood.com). I always thought it's a nice thing to have at RCGroups, but with the database structure utilized by our forum software it wasn't very feasible from the performance standpoint. But there is nothing impossible for our search engine! So here it is:
Delete/undelete your blog entries
From now on you'll be able to delete and restore your own blog entries. Look for the "Delete" links in your blog:
Search in subscribed threads
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If you like to track the noteworthy threads by subscribing to them, or you are auto-subscribing to all threads you reply to, you may be interested in a new feature - it's now possible to limit search to just your subscribed threads by using an appropriate option in the advanced search page.
There's one gotcha - for the performance reasons only the latest 4000 subscribed threads are fetched for searching. So those 19 members who have more than that wouldn't be able to use this feature in the fullest.
P.S. I have just 1333 subscribed threads here, far less than the record 9448 threads...
There's one gotcha - for the performance reasons only the latest 4000 subscribed threads are fetched for searching. So those 19 members who have more than that wouldn't be able to use this feature in the fullest.
P.S. I have just 1333 subscribed threads here, far less than the record 9448 threads...
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New Feature: Sort by Distance
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May 27, 2010 @ 11:07 AM / 12,442 Views /
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Yesterday we rolled out a new feature in the FS/W section of our forums: thread sort by the author's distance from you.
For it to work, you should have the latitude and longitude of your location set in your forum profile. The easiest way to do it is to use the new Set Location page in My RCGroups.
Having done that, head to one of the FS/W forums and observe a new distance column in the thread list. If a thread author has his lat/lon coordinates set in his profile, you'll see the distance between you and him in that column. To sort the thread list from the closest to you to the farthest, click on the "Distance" word in the column header.
For it to work, you should have the latitude and longitude of your location set in your forum profile. The easiest way to do it is to use the new Set Location page in My RCGroups.
Having done that, head to one of the FS/W forums and observe a new distance column in the thread list. If a thread author has his lat/lon coordinates set in his profile, you'll see the distance between you and him in that column. To sort the thread list from the closest to you to the farthest, click on the "Distance" word in the column header.
15 million posts
A few days ago (on May 25) we've passed 15,000,000 posts.
New server addition
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Jan 25, 2010 @ 02:45 PM / 12,196 Views /
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It's hard to believe but RCGroups has been running for almost 4 straight years on a single web frontend server. Despite all the increase in traffic and user activity, and the CPU utilization being near or over 100% in the busy hours, it handled the load just fine. But it was evident that it's time to move on. So a few days ago another frontend server was added to offload most of the traffic from the main server. The addition has been absolutely transparent, and the cool thing is that should the need arise, we can add new frontend servers on the fly and the load will be distributed among them.
14 million posts
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Jan 25, 2010 @ 01:22 PM / 12,160 Views /
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Approximately 10-12 hours ago RCGroups gained its 14th million post! (and I missed it again...):
"Most users ever online" reset.
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Nov 05, 2009 @ 06:30 AM / 13,165 Views /
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After the forum software upgrade, we've decided to start from the clean sheet and reset the "most users even online" counter on the forum home page. It is accompanied by the change in the system "session timeout" setting which shouldn't affect the user base now that the unread threads are kept unread even after a long period of inactivity.
