[Hpr] Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ?

[Brian K Navarette]

I hope people would contribute and take to heart the audio doesn't have to
be perfect. My shows audio isn't great but I get shows done, so like mr x
says pick up your phone or mic and record a show, heck use espeak to read
something you wrote.
brian-in-ohio

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM Ken Fallon via Hpr <
hpr at lists.hackerpublicradio.com> wrote:

> On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote:
>
>
> As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about
> listenership numbers as well.
>
> Caveats:
> 1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast, but
> without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're likely to
> have.
> 2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise.
>
> While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be
> nice to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to
> listenership. After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent schedule
> that's been in place for a very long time, I expect things would be either
> consistent or growing.
>
> Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude
> larger than that number does the average episode reach?
>
> "Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into
> the main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>. You know the big double
> decker passenger plane. Every month we have on average 33,584 downloads,
> that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>." See
> https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information.
>
> We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are
> listeners.
>
> However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show on
> the topic. ;-)
>
> The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page
> <https://archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio?sort=-date>. The dates can
> be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a query Dave sent me )
>
> SELECT
>
> MIN(e.date) AS joindate
>
> FROM eps e
>
> JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid
>
> GROUP BY h.hostid
>
> ORDER BY joindate DESC;
>
> The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)https://kenfallon.comhttps://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon
>
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