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[Great Order]

Has the forum's active membership shrunk significantly? Even compared to before my year-long hiatus it feels a lot less active. And definitely less active than when I first joined, but that's not surprising, I feel I joined somewhere around the apex of the forum.

[Frumple]

I can't really tell much of a difference. Feels about the same as ever, to me, 'least in GD and OG... but I also just don't really notice activity fluctuations all that much to begin with, so *shrugs*

Biggest blip is novel spamming out a bunch of threads for the last while, now. Maybe wherever you were hiatusing was just much more active and the difference is throwing you off?

[Great Order]

Might be.

Speaking of, with the year off I've forgotten, what's Toady's stance on swearing? Obviously some degree's fine, but I'm not sure if a certain popular word in Australia's allowed because some places can be pretty strict on that. Unfortunately for the Americans among us, I've become fairly fond of it myself and I'd check first than get told off.

[King Zultan]

As far as I can tell the forum's activity has stayed pretty much the same since I joined.

Speaking of, with the year off I've forgotten, what's Toady's stance on swearing? Obviously some degree's fine, but I'm not sure if a certain popular word in Australia's allowed because some places can be pretty strict on that. Unfortunately for the Americans among us, I've become fairly fond of it myself and I'd check first than get told off.

You mean the word cunt I've seen others use it, and I called some horses cunts on here awhile back and no one complained.

[Il Palazzo]

Weird. To me, it feels almost dead.

[lemon10]

Has the forum's active membership shrunk significantly? Even compared to before my year-long hiatus it feels a lot less active. And definitely less active than when I first joined, but that's not surprising, I feel I joined somewhere around the apex of the forum.

Yes. Based on the stats activity has gone down every year since 2012. Compared to even 2019 total posts have went down by ~40%.

[McTraveller]

Quality, not quantity?

(One can only hope.)

[Great Order]

Has the forum's active membership shrunk significantly? Even compared to before my year-long hiatus it feels a lot less active. And definitely less active than when I first joined, but that's not surprising, I feel I joined somewhere around the apex of the forum.

Yes. Based on the stats activity has gone down every year since 2012. Compared to even 2019 total posts have went down by ~40%.

How do I view this?

[TamerVirus]

I just think post by post forums like this one have fallen out of style compared to something like Discord.
Maybe steam release will lead to more activity when it happens but who knows

[lemon10]

Has the forum's active membership shrunk significantly? Even compared to before my year-long hiatus it feels a lot less active. And definitely less active than when I first joined, but that's not surprising, I feel I joined somewhere around the apex of the forum.

Yes. Based on the stats activity has gone down every year since 2012. Compared to even 2019 total posts have went down by ~40%.

How do I view this?

Go to the forum stats page. You can also find a link to it on the bottom of the forum index page.

I just think post by post forums like this one have fallen out of style compared to something like Discord.
Maybe steam release will lead to more activity when it happens but who knows

Ehh, that might be part of it, but primarily its because interest in DF has fallen over the years, which makes sense given that its been in development for so long that even its successor games (eg. Rimworld) have been out for many years.

A steam release might pump up the numbers a bit as you say. But also as you say, who can say for sure.

[McTraveller]

I'm odd - I much prefer this style of forum to Discord and similar.

Keep it simple!

[Great Order]

Huh, interestingly the most people online was only last year, but the post numbers were at their lowest that year too.

But yeah, 2012 and 2014 had roughly even post numbers, and now? 111,000 posts last year, an order of magnitude less.

[Frumple]

That's also like 300 somethin' posts a day, though, which ain't exactly nothin'.

Eyeballing the stats does explain why it doesn't really feel that slow to me -- I'm pretty sure I calibrated my normal within a year or two of joining, and, well.

[Great Order]

That's across the whole forum though, not just GD. Majority of it's probably taking place in the DF discussions, which I don't really frequent at all.

[dragdeler]

I don't go there I didn't even check, but if forum games happen to be more quiet, that should account for a lot of posts.

I also rarely check on the upper boards but the action has been there lately, right?