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[McTraveller]

Is that right? 80k posts/year is only like 220 a day.  Surely it's more than that, isn't it?

[Magmacube_tr]

Is that right? 80k posts/year is only like 220 a day.  Surely it's more than that, isn't it?

Nope. Unless the forum statistics are blatantly wrong, that number should be accurate.

[MaxTheFox]

Dunno. As long as there is Dwarf Fortress, the forum will survive. It'll be a dim core of its former self, like a white dwarf (the star type) but I doubt it'd just die. Even the lower boards-- people will trickle in slowly, I suppose.

That big decline starting in 2015? It was the niche-fication of the forum system.

[Great Order]

Yeah, B12 is a vestige of the older internet. Forums like this were all over the place, but its been more centralised now. Forums have been replaced by subreddits and Discord servers.

[MaxTheFox]

The third-party stuff was not enough to sink Reddit (I find myself coming back to it and using it), but if it does truly collapse then forums won't really resurge, I think.

The next gen of social media seems to be decentralized stuff like Lemmy and Mastodon.

[King Zultan]

All this social media stuff is pretty crap, I don't get why there aren't more forums around they seem like friendlier places than those big shit holes.

[Magmacube_tr]

All this social media stuff is pretty crap, I don't get why there aren't more forums around they seem like friendlier places than those big shit holes.

Welp, unless Bay12 suddenly becomes more visible, then the places with astronomically more visibility will get all the attention. It isn't about quality, it is about commonality.

Maybe we could like, find forums at the edge of death and convince its leftover members to come here in an attempt to mimic stellar rejuvenation? Though, those dying forums themselves would be a rare resource at this late of a stage at internets centralisation.

[MaxTheFox]

Mastodon is much nicer than Twitter was ngl. Depends on the instance of course.

On my instance I see the same like, 20 people every time.

[Egan_BW]

Is that right? 80k posts/year is only like 220 a day.  Surely it's more than that, isn't it?

And 5 of those 220 are mine...

[Kagus]

Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.

[Magmacube_tr]

Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.

The numbers don't lie though.

[Loud Whispers]

Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.

The numbers don't lie though.

All things must end one day. Appreciate it while you got it

[Il Palazzo]

Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.

The numbers don't lie though.

Are you saying Kaguses lie then? Nay, it's them thar numbers. They see the past through rose-tinted glasses. They get wobbly with age. Don't trust them with your money.

[dragdeler]

Kagi!

[Kagus]

Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.

The numbers don't lie though.

What numbers? You don't even list 2008, I joined in 2007^*

Besides, I'm not trying to claim that a downward trend is inaccurate... Just that I'll be perfectly comfortable once it's down to a manageable number again!


^{*Probably. There was some date-of-registration funkiness around the time of the Great Migration, so some of us lost our proper registration dates, but it's as good a guess as any}