Bitcointalk.org posts by topic, updatedBelow is a breakdown of the 239 recently most active threads in this forum, captured a few hours ago. For comparison, I copied the similar statistics for June/21 and July/25:
2014-06-21 ! 2014-07-25 ! 2014-09-25 !
--------------+---------------+---------------+
Posts ! % ! Posts ! % ! Posts ! % ! Category
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
8 | 6.7 | 14 | 12.6 | 28 | 11.7 | Off-topic
4 | 3.3 | 7 | 6.3 | 15 | 6.3 | Gambling
18 | 15.0 | 12 | 10.8 | 58 | 24.3 | Bitcoin mining
37 | 30.8 | 22 | 19.8 | 23 | 9.6 | Bitcoin non-mining
53 | 44.2 | 56 | 50.5 | 115 | 48.1 | Altcoins (including mining)
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
120 | 100.0 | 111 | 100.0 | 239 | 100.0 | TOTAL
ExplanationTo create the last table, I copied the first 6 pages of
the list of most recent topics posted to, spanning about 1 hour, and manually classified the threads in the above categories. (This is not quite a sample of the recent
posts, since each thread was counted only once even if it had several posts within that interval. So the most active threads are under-represented.)
CommentsAs in the previous samples, about half of the activity seems to be related to altcoins. Activity about bitcoin (mining and non-mining) was 46%, 31% , and 34% in the three samples; the difference was taken over by gambling and other threads unrelated to cryptocoins.
Among the posts about bitcoin proper, there seems to be an increasing fraction about mining.
This time, 9 of the 58 posts about bitcoin (15.5%) were in Chinese. (This proportion may vary along the day; the sample was taken at about 02:00--03:00 UTC, which is 10:00--11:00 am in China.)
EDIT: Here are the samples of thread headers used to make those tables:
2014-06-21 2014-07-25 2014-09-25 . The headers were edited to remove funny characters and indicate the language (with [CN] or [Chinese], [RU], [DE] etc.). Titles in some foreign languages were translated through Google.
