[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Marion Thompson]

Looking at the shift between 2019 and 2020, I'd say the List was another
victim of COVID..

Marion, a pilgrim   ...today my sail I lift .;;;

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 11:58, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

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