The History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy Forum was launched around July 12, and it’s now almost been a month. The number of visitors has been declining in a straight line; at this rate, it will probably drop to zero in a few days…… There haven’t been any new posts recently, though there are still a few new users registering. The vast majority of registrants, including the contact person who helped organize this conference, have been so miserly that they won’t even post a single check-in thread. To be honest, that’s pretty disheartening. Of course, the BBS is my own wishful construction, but after all, everyone did support it during the meeting, and after it went live no one directly objected to me; they all chose to protest by means of nonviolent noncooperation…… Of course, it is summer vacation now, and everyone’s mind is elsewhere, and the formal call for papers and review work has not yet begun, so we needn’t lose heart too early. But why is nobody even willing to leave a single word?
If this forum ultimately fails, then I won’t hand it over to be passed on to the next conference; I’ll keep the domain name “keshizhe.com” for my own use, and might as well open it up to amateur cranks in science and philosophy……
Let me put the traffic statistics out there and take a look:
The peak in visits came on the second day after the site went live, while the peak in number of visitors came on the fifth day, which was the day when Teacher Wu helped post the call for papers on his blog. After that, it fell in an utterly unsurprising downward slide.
The number of pages per visit and the length of time visitors stayed were both fairly long, though of course they were also falling rapidly (no new posts, after all). The vast majority of visitors came from China, and the vast majority of those came from Beijing. Direct traffic and traffic arriving via other websites were roughly half and half, while search engine traffic was negligible.
As for the sources of referral traffic, the largest share still came from my own blog; in particular, there were 36 clicks coming from the article “Why Create Such a Forum.” The second item seems to be related to the redirect service of keshizhe.com? Then the contributions from Sina Blog and Weibo were also quite substantial. By contrast, there were fewer sources from email addresses, so it looks like the promotional effect of email forwarding was fairly ordinary..
Alas, what should be done next……
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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