Many TSR users will know Fleur de lis, she’s been an amazing moderator and a good friend to many on the site. Always sensitive to people’s feelings and point of view she’s clocked up some serious hours on TSR providing support, advice and fluffy giraffe loveliness day and night.
Fleur is stepping down from her demanding role as a Supermod to concentrate more on her own studies. But between me and you the real reason is because she’s assuming a key role within Barrack Obama’s team of expert advisors – She’s that good!
She’ll be missed by the mod team and the members BUT the good news is that she’s actually not going away, she’ll be hanging out in Health and Relationships in a Minimod role 
If you see her on the site give her big thanks for her hard work, she’s given a hell of a lot to TSR and we’ve been lucky to have her on the team.
Good luck Nic! See you in the sexual health forum (I’ll be the Anonymous user with the raincoat on)
on an unrelated matter the member ‘ViolatedTreason’ has a very cool avatar:
- J
I just thought I’d share a few site stats with you.
On Monday 19th January we broke the record for the most visits ever to TSR in a single day (again) with 129,795 visits. Up by 68 visits from the previous visit sat last week. The trend looks like we’ll have some even bigger days later on this week however.
A Level results day last August still remains the biggest ever day for page views with around 1.124 million page views. We’re edging ever closer to this figure again though with Sunday 18th January seeing over 1.107 million page views. If things continue we should eclipse this record soon too.
A final figure I want to share is the total number of visits in the last month. For the first time we’ve broken the 3 million barrier with 3,002,003 visits over the last month. We have to remember this contains the Christmas and New Year period too which saw some very quiet days so we can expect this record to be increase too as the Christmas and New Year weeks stop being counted here.
Overall the site is about twice a busy as the same time last year. If this continues can we expect our first 200,000 visit day during the summer?
RK
Happy New year from the Admin team at TSR.
The year has started well, already we’ve been breaking records. The busiest day ever was on the 14th of Jan when we had 128,000 visits, 94 unique users in a single day. That’s 282% growth compared with the same day last year!
For those into their stats The Student Room gets about 1.5million unique users a month now
Lots of stuff going on at the moment…
We’re working with DIUS (Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills) to put together a page of resources on TSR for people considering going into education as a mature student. This will be live early in Feb and we have been consulting with TSR users in our mature student forum to make sure we get it right.
If you have other suggestions or pick up the discussion here
The TSR test team have been crawling all over the development site trying to find problems that we can get fixed before we go live with the new site updates.
all things going well we plan to make the latest site update in the middle of next week. The site will have to be down for a while (probably wed evening) to make that update.
The feedback we’ve had from the Test Team has been very positive, especially the ability to switch template colours. It will be interesting to see which the most popular colours turn out to be.
We have restructured the About forum, splitting it into two. One forum is now for questions about Rep and TSR, the other forum is for making suggestions about TSRs development and reporting bugs. This should help us really keep on top of those issues and requests.
Congratulations to the winners of the end of year TSR awards! While its fresh in peoples minds make suggestions below if you have ideas for how the awards could be even better next year.
Finally just a quick note to say thanks to +epic for getting a ‘TSR welcome pack‘ started. It’s got a way to go but the idea is that this could become a simple guide to TSR for newcomers and we can link to it from the email that people get when they register. Its a wiki page so feel free to add anything you think could be useful that perhaps confused you when you first came to TSR.
Good luck if you have exams and essays to write at the moment
-J
