As the creator of said Tableau infographic, I'm glad its been shared and thought I could take a stab at answering a few questions.

The data has simply been collected by checking the forum stats that many forums share publicly. For a very select few who don't share information I (or another forum user) has done a quick addition of the posts and threads by categories. This is the case for paizo and D&D community (yes its just the D&D part, no Magic etc).

Quote from: Skywalker;829496I think it needs a date range to be truly helpful. It would be interesting to see comparisons year by year.

Indeed it would, however without pestering each forum admin for these details, I don't see a way to collect this. Perhaps I'll collect the data again in a year or 6 months and that will provide some insight.

As for RPGgeek -- I've considered adding it a few times. They don't share any user or post count information though, and it be impossible for them to separate RPG from boardgame users anyway. Still I suppose I could do a tally on the RPG section of their forum like I did for Paizo and WoTC D&D . . .

I am open to people pointing out communities I may have missed.

Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;831141What happened? I only ever went there years ago for MtG.

I trust you are familiar that 4e did not do good things with the DnD brand, running off many DnD fans.  It was also the first edition change with a mature internet, so the fans did not have the maturity to not have viscious edition wars running off more good folks.

Gleemax was WotC constantly monkeying around with how the forums worked.  For one example, I used to have many good discussions in the Greyhawk subforum.  Edition change should not have really mattered, we were just discussing the world.  But the Greyhwk subforum was eliminated and merged into who knows where several times, and fuckit, easier to discuss Greyhawk on Canonfire.

Quote from: Thondor;831270As the creator of said Tableau infographic, I'm glad its been shared and thought I could take a stab at answering a few questions.

The data has simply been collected by checking the forum stats that many forums share publicly. For a very select few who don't share information I (or another forum user) has done a quick addition of the posts and threads by categories. This is the case for paizo and D&D community (yes its just the D&D part, no Magic etc).



Indeed it would, however without pestering each forum admin for these details, I don't see a way to collect this. Perhaps I'll collect the data again in a year or 6 months and that will provide some insight.

As for RPGgeek -- I've considered adding it a few times. They don't share any user or post count information though, and it be impossible for them to separate RPG from boardgame users anyway. Still I suppose I could do a tally on the RPG section of their forum like I did for Paizo and WoTC D&D . . .

I am open to people pointing out communities I may have missed.

going back in 6 months sounds like a good idea

Quote from: Old One Eye;831322I trust you are familiar that 4e did not do good things with the DnD brand, running off many DnD fans.  It was also the first edition change with a mature internet, so the fans did not have the maturity to not have viscious edition wars running off more good folks.

Gleemax was WotC constantly monkeying around with how the forums worked.  For one example, I used to have many good discussions in the Greyhawk subforum.  Edition change should not have really mattered, we were just discussing the world.  But the Greyhwk subforum was eliminated and merged into who knows where several times, and fuckit, easier to discuss Greyhawk on Canonfire.

that was pretty stupid of them then.

Quote from: Old One Eye;831322I trust you are familiar that 4e did not do good things with the DnD brand, running off many DnD fans.  It was also the first edition change with a mature internet, so the fans did not have the maturity to not have viscious edition wars running off more good folks.

Gleemax was WotC constantly monkeying around with how the forums worked.  For one example, I used to have many good discussions in the Greyhawk subforum.  Edition change should not have really mattered, we were just discussing the world.  But the Greyhwk subforum was eliminated and merged into who knows where several times, and fuckit, easier to discuss Greyhawk on Canonfire.

Ah, I see. It seems like edition wars are dead on the internet nowadays. Everybody just accepts the one they like and go play it. Although I've seen it crop up IRL more often. You mention 4E and it's like a cross to a vampire.

Quote from: Thondor;831270I am open to people pointing out communities I may have missed.

I already pointed out

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Quote from: tuypo1;831386that was pretty stupid of them then.

Yep.  Regardless of what one may think about the 4e game, I don't see any other position but that WotC really fucked the pooch when it comes to the DnD brand during those days.  Hence the extreme care being taken with brand management in 5e.

jeez the wizards forums really are dead or at least the magic flavour forums are

Quote from: BillDowns;831543I already pointed out

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Thanks for providing the links and details. I have added it them to the workbook.

I have also added RPGgeek. (here's a convenient link).

I'll try to check in on this thread now and then, but I am a little preoccupied with the my Simple Superheroes RPG kickstarter which launched yesterday.

Off to a great Ottawa convention called CanGames.

Good gaming.

Update
I've added The Tangled Web which seems to be a play-by-post and VTT focused forum.

Easy link to the data map.

Update:
Added Fear The Boot podcast's forum

Interesting - still lots of little forums missing though.

It shows theRPGsite as having 1 active user hehe.

Same with rpg.stackexchange, SJG, several others ...