[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Ginga Wilder]

I am here.  Lots of good stuff happening in the Episcopal Diocese of SC and
in our parish, the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Summerville, SC.
At this distance from the schism that happened in SC in the early years of
the 21st Century, our congregation is flourishing and in the midst of a
capital campaign for a new church building on land we were given.  Yay!

GInga Wilder

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm around, as you can see by my prompt reply, but generally otherwise
> occupied on line.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim    ...today my sail I lift ...
>
> On Tue, 23 Sept 2025 at 16:48, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Has the list died?  I haven't received anything since March.  Of course,
> I
> > hadn't written anything either.
> >
> > "What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and
> walk
> > humbly with your God?"
> > Micah 6:8
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk>
> 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
> > >
> >
>