New Metrics for the Forums

[Roger Wright]

I see a lot of comments in the Lounge about the time required to page through the postings. An awful lot of folks here have no high speed access, and so during slow posting periods they often have to flip through the pages only to find nothing new. Would it be very problemmatic to add a histogram of hourly posts somewhere? This would tell a user whether there has been a flurry of activity since the last visit, and serve as a measure of how likely it is that anything new and interesting has appeared.