Hi folks, this is your faithful editor Tim Grimm here. I usually look forward to these Revit Add-ons year-in-review articles; they're an opportunity to look back at our accomplishment for the year and see what most connected with our readers. This year I approach this piece with some trepidation though. Although we published 476 posts during the year, this was well off the goal of 1,000 that we'd set for ourselves at the beginning of the year. Why did we fall so short? It's quite simple: I returned to full-time employment in March. Frankly, since then, it was all we could do to try to keep up with the low-hanging fruit of the Autodesk App Store, because contributors were BUSY there.
As a result, many of our regular features suffered, such as our
'weekly' roundups of the App Store, which were often several weeks, or even months, combined, our
'week in review' articles, which ended in early March, our monthly
'what's hot' articles, which ended in May, and our
'product roundups' and
'product reviews', which were almost nowhere to be seen.
Worse yet, for the second year in a row, our coverage of webinars, Dynamo and the Revit API suffered. And, for the first time, add-ins not published on the App Store were also under served.
It's clear to me now that, with how busy and productive the community is, comprehensive coverage isn't a job for one or two people, unless they're full-time, or are smarter than me and can automate the process. In fact, maintaining the site in the manner that I always have, which is manual entry, I could see the following
individual content contributors being needed:
- Autodesk App Store and recurring features
- Non-App Store add-ins (including webinars)
- Dynamo coverage (including original content)
- Revit API coverage (including original content)
There's a major announcement coming in the New Year that may ultimately feed into something like the above. Or not. We'll see. Stay tuned.
Pageviews
Although our number of posts were down slightly from last year, 476 as compared to 500 (
-24), our pageviews rose to a new high-water mark, from 664,301 to 695,688 (
+31,387).
