[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Simon Kershaw]

Here we are, just two weeks into 2025, and we have already seen 74 
messages, 75 with this one, surpassing all of last year, and over half 
way to 2023's total.

If we were to keep up this amount of traffic we'd be up at 2019 levels 
of some 1800 messages. But I don't suppose we shall!

simon


On 02/01/2025 12.49, 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
> 


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Simon Kershaw
simon at kershaw.org.uk
Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire