all posts made in October 2015

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Breakdown by manufacturer flagships

Original Development breakdown

At least for me, one of the main factors when deciding to buy new phone is 3rd party development community. And what place is better to find custom ROMs than XDA-Developers? However, it is hard to determine which devices are more XDActive than other. Only statistics I have found was total number of posts, which does not help much as 3 year old device will probably have more total posts than 3 months old one even though 3 year old device will be more abandoned than new one.That is why I decided to make little scrapper that went through all recent threads on all development forums and counted. Results are there:Here is little graph that displays all posts made in October 2015 broken down by manufacturer and phone release date (all flagships from specific year and manufacturer are counted together):(I had to collect these manually so graph only includes flagship phones ).As you can see, if you get anything else than Nexus, Samsung or Oneplus, activity on the XDA will be relatively low regardless of the device's age. While 2015 devices are included on the graph, numbers for most of them are irrelevant because they were just released. However we can still make some comparisons, for example between HTC, Samsung, LG. Even though they have been released at about the same time, activity on this year Samsung's devices is already comparable to last year's and it is vastly higher than all other devices..Second graph is similar to first one, but only counts posts made in Original Development forums of the devices. That shows clear picture of actual development, instead of just buttload of ROMs with changed themes or different baked-in apps.I don't think there is anything surprising here. Anything except for Nexuses and Oneplus scored really bad here.I will attempt to re-do those periodically and post the result, I think it will be interesting to see how device activity evolves over time, especially for 2015 Samsung devices that only have supposedly developer-unfriendly Exynos chips.