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So I've been working on this the past few days.

Are these really only the communities left alive?  Are there states that have a preference to one music game site verses the others?

I'd love if anyone has updates before this goes live.

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It was awesome when there were dozens of players at every DDR location you could imagine. Those were certainly good times.

Btw, I like how this guy rates machines on his page.
http://www.brandon2u.8m.com/news.html

He has a category called "Biggest Drawback" and it mentions things like kids, crowds, whatever. A nice idea. It'd be cool if more rating places had Pro/Con sections...though I guess letting people leave comments on those locations probably satisfies this need adequately.

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There are a lot of old communities that are still half-way online, but dead. I figured I'd link them for nostalgia sake.
http://www.members.tripod.com/holy_knight_7/home.html
http://members.multimania.co.uk/ddrba55/
http://www.brandon2u.8m.com/news.html
http://ddrtacoma.tripod.com/
http://imperialpints.tripod.com/index.html

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I find it very hard to believe that there are 15-ish people on our site at any given time.  That would be like, every regular member here signed on 24/7 and a bit of random internet traffic on top of that.

"Random internet traffic" makes up 57% of the traffic to the site.
This is the traffic from the previous 7 days to the site.

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To reiterate:

I find it very hard to believe that there are 15-ish people on our site at any given time.  That would be like, every regular member here signed on 24/7 and a bit of random internet traffic on top of that.

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I've also done a good job of keeping the spambots out. I think we've only had about a dozen or so registered at one time but with the registration passphrase enabled, that's gone down to zero.

Pretty much all but a few of our users still keep in contact with us on Facebook. I can count 1 person who doesn't have a facebook account because they don't like social networking sites...

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To further clarify...
Users: Registered & Signed in
Guests: Google search visitors, members not-signed in, & internet crawlers.
Total: Combination of those both.

So only the "Users" count are the ones who can post.

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I just had a bit of a hard time believing that with 10+ people on at any given time, the boards are as slow as they are.

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I'm willing to bet that most of the 10-odd guests that are signed into this site at any given time aren't actual people.

Tada, look through this site's membership. Anyone signed in is 95% guaranteed NOT to be a spammer. I check new member profiles every week too, so we have zero active spammers here.

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I suppose you could count the number of hits the website gets in a month? But again, I don't know what 'factual' data that tells ya.

Same problem; a significant portion of those hits could be from bots.

If the admins have some sort of method of sorting the users by last activity, I really don't see any difficulty in counting the number of active users.  Just search for the ones whose latest activity was in the last month and have more than say, about 3 posts (Most bots would probably have 0 or 1) and see how many users that returns.

Or hell, it probably wouldn't take too long to count by hand.

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I suppose you could count the number of hits the website gets in a month? But again, I don't know what 'factual' data that tells ya.

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If you could get the info, it'd be neat to put how many registered users each forum has. Though this doesn't really prove anything, since sites like DDR Freak could claim hundred thousand + users, though over time most just disappeared.

The thing about usercounts is that they'd most likely be inaccurate.  Quite a good portion of them would be spambots, which would throw off the actual total on our site, let alone a highly bot-infested site like DDRFreak.  I'm willing to bet that most of the 10-odd guests that are signed into this site at any given time aren't actual people.

And as you stated, the count could also include members that haven't visited the site in a long time.  An "active" user count that counts only actual people who've logged into the site in the last, say, month or so would be better.  Considering the total usercounts are only in the hundreds, the number of active users could be counted by hand.

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There are 749 people in Maine???

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If you could get the info, it'd be neat to put how many registered users each forum has. Though this doesn't really prove anything, since sites like DDR Freak could claim hundred thousand + users, though over time most just disappeared.

PNW: 320
MMG: 362
Beatgamer: 43
DDR Maine: 749   o.0 
DDR STL: 582  o.0  (site is down, but that's from Google's cached page from last week)

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I was wondering why ddrstl is listed so far to the north, near chicago...  Their website seems to be down too.  I would think they'd be closer to st louis, since their name stands for ddr st louis? 

I'm from the midwest, but never heard of them, although I'm more ITG oriented.  Maybe, I'll ask my friend who lives near st louis if she's heard of them.

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If you could get the info, it'd be neat to put how many registered users each forum has. Though this doesn't really prove anything, since sites like DDR Freak could claim hundred thousand + users, though over time most just disappeared.

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From everything I can see, it looks like us and MMG are the two largest and still active regional DDR websites.

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Someone figure out when their next tournament is and I offer to drive us up there. We'll wreck their shit on 9s hehe

This made me lol, because I think it's the only thing the majority of us could beat them on.

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I gotta get a passport, but then Tony and I are game to drive up there for their next event.  I actually have a friend up there who I've been meaning to see anyway (I don't think he plays dance games anymore, so we don't have to worry about him being on their side.)

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F-ing Canadians....

Buncha sandbagging, timing-window-adjusting, foam-modding (not that that's really a bad thing...), no-timing-just-stamina-circle-jerk bad-sportsmen CHEATERS!

Someone figure out when their next tournament is and I offer to drive us up there. We'll wreck their shit on 9s hehe


(Note: sorry for the hateful racism,

but these guys are CANADIANS

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(Note: Note: This post is joking, so in advance, chill)

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Oh man, I am so with you on that.  Out of state players are one thing, but these guys are CANADIANS.

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CANADAAAAAAAAA


We gotta take these guys out... Next tournament they have we gotta get a group to train up and go crash their shit

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I looked at Z-i-V's regional forums, and only a few threads were active. The rest of the site was, but not the regional section.

The goal of this chart is to be about regions and communities, not a list of general Bemani sites for all of the US.

I'd argue that people from all over the US just use the general threads for communication because they probably don't have any local forums to use. By showing the remaining parts of the USA hatched, you imply that BemaniStyle and Rhythmatic.net make up the remainder. What I'm saying is that, like BemaniStyle, I think ZIV and AIJ are a catch-all for people without a local community forum. Certainly more-so than Rhythmatic.

Btw, I like how the ENTIRE TOP OF THE MAP is dedicated to RGCanada. It made me lol once I realized that it was there.

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If we're going to post now-defunct sites, shouldn't we include the Global Jamz BBS in there too?

No defunct sites in the chart. So no DDRFreak, or anything even more abandoned. Everything needs to be current and active.

Oh, you're right. I thought John had them lumped up with Bemanistyle.net. Rhythmatic is all-but-dead these days. I think BemaniStyle, ZIV, and AIJ are the top bemani communities on the net. (Sorry John, I lub PNW, but we have to be realistic here) =D

That's why I asked!  I'm not trying to be unrealistic, I just don't know where everyone posts anymore.

I looked at Z-i-V's regional forums, and only a few threads were active. The rest of the site was, but not the regional section.

The goal of this chart is to be about regions and communities, not a list of general Bemani sites for all of the US.

PS: Drop the H in the Jon. 

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Also, I think the Western half of Idaho is more affiliated with us than BG. The Southern part of Idaho is definitely BG, but Moscow, Core d'Lane and the Northern parts are much closer to us.

This is correct. Beatgamer is now mostly Southern and South-Eastern Idaho, Montana and Utah. We have reached out to Vegas, Colorado and Wyoming but Vegas seems to be posting elsewhere, and both Colorado and Wyoming have dropped off the face of the earth (has anyone heard from anybody in either of those states? I messaged a couple of Colorado people about a big Utah tournament earlier this year but never heard back from anyone).