[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Timothy Stewart]

Facebook? What's that?

I'll send some gossip later,

Tim Stewart

Honolulu

On 1/2/2025 6:54 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> And a lot of folks who were on here are now connecting on FaceBook.
>
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
>
> * "Service is what prayer looks like when it gets up off its knees and
> walks around in the world"*
> *                                              Michael J. Graham, SJ*
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM Brian Reid <brian at reid.org> wrote:
>
>> Every email list that I host or read has declined dramatically in the
>> last few years. I think that many people are just not using email as a
>> primary communication medium any more.
>>
>> On 2025-01-02 04:49, Simon Kershaw wrote:
>>> Many moons ago, before this list began, I used to collate monthly
>>> statistics on a predecessor list. The original aim of those posts was
>>> to try and keep the number of posts down and to name and shame the
>>> most frequent posters.
>>>
>>> But looking today at the number of posts here over the last 8 years it
>>> is clear that there has been a precipitous decline in posting. Even as
>>> recently as 2021 there was an average of more than a post a day. In
>>> 2024 the average was only slightly more than a post a week. Seven
>>> years earlier there were over 100 posts a week.
>>>
>>> 2017: 5443 messages across 1350 threads
>>>
>>> 2018: 3954 messages across 872 threads
>>>
>>> 2019: 1853 messages across 375 threads
>>>
>>> 2020: 1518 messages across 219 threads
>>>
>>> 2021: 500 messages across 87 threads
>>>
>>> 2023: 336 messages across 52 threads
>>>
>>> 2023: 132 messages across 25 threads
>>>
>>> 2024: 67 messages across 16 threads
>>>
>>>
>>> simon