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The Most Popular GeekNights Episodes of All Time

AprecheApreche
edited December 2016 in GeekNights
Today I just randomly checked to see which episodes of GeekNights are the most downloaded of all time. I don't know if the stats can be trusted completely. Libsyn changed their counting methods in May 2010. Also in October of 2013 there was a drastic reduction our download numbers across the board. Any episodes posted before then will have an unfair benefit. Lastly, counting total downloads gives a bias towards older episodes which have a longer long tail.

So, to be fair, here are two lists. One list is just the most downloaded all time. The other only includes shows since October 6, 2013 when the stats drastically changed.

ALL TIME top 10

  1. 20120507 - Web Vulnerabilities
  2. 20071226 - Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  3. 20120509 - Once Popular Anime and "The Churn"
  4. 20120813 - Paying for Stuff
  5. 20120702 - Hardware Lockdown and Secure Boot
  6. 20120618 - Laptops in 2012
  7. 20120626 - Cards Against Humanity and Real Money Auction Houses
  8. 20120325 - Tech News Roundup March 2012
  9. 20111219 - Software Development Methodologies
  10. 20120314 - Order of the Stick
It's worth noting that the Dark Night Returns episode is only 3 downloads behind the web vulnerabilities episode. And that the web vulnerabilities episode has only one download in the past 3 months. Batman has 16 in October, 12 in November, and 2 already in December. It's gonna be number one really soon.

Since October 6, 2013

  1. 20140924 - Gundam Unicorn UC
  2. 20131106 - The 2013 Anime Renaissance
  3. 20131009 - Attack on Titan Season 1
  4. 20140825 - Electricity
  5. 20140401 - Why No One Will Game With You
  6. 20131202 - That Penny Arcade Job Posting
  7. 20140811 - IT Disasters
  8. 20141215 - Will AI Destroy Us?
  9. 20140908 - Upgrading PCs
  10. 20150427 - Tech News Roundup April 2015
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  • AprecheApreche
    edited December 2016
    One more interesting list. What I did is I looked only at downloads in the month of November 2016. I excluded any episodes that were too new, otherwise the list would just be full of recent episodes. Consider this to be the list of episodes that are too old to have any right to be downloaded this much in November 2016. AKA, the episodes with the most staying power.

    1. 20060413 - Masturbation [explicit]
    2. 20100727 - Luke and Jared on R
    3. 20111108 - Burning Apocalypse Con with Luke Crane
    4. 20120501 - Luke Crane on the Mouse Guard RPG
    5. 20111129 - 100 Percent in Games
    6. 20071226 - Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
    7. 20061031 - Interview with Luke Crane
    8. 20080115 - Dwarf Fortress
    9. 20080227 - Katsucon 14: Part 1
    10. 20090729 - Otakon 2009

    Where the other metrics show some unexpected episodes, this looks most like what you would guess to actually be the most popular episodes of GeekNights.

    And just in the interest of fairness, here is the same list with a less aggressive date cut-off. It includes episodes that are clearly receiving some benefit of new-ness, but have significantly more staying power than their contemporaries.

    1. 20160621 - Reddit's Idea of Strange Strategies
    2. 20151124 - Matchmaking in Games
    3. 20151210 - All our Jobs
    4. 20160121 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
    5. 20151110 - Game Rules
    6. 20150810 - HTTP Proxies
    7. 20151130 - Headphone Jacks and iPhones
    8. 20150820 - Cookies
    9. 20060413 - Masturbation [explicit]
    10. 20150806 - The Lightning Round
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