Subject: Did someone say numbers?!
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Posted on: 2021-05-10 09:51:23 UTC

(The delightful Aoife McLysaght courtesy the 2018 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.)

As Neshomeh rightly predicted, I Have Numbers. Or rather, I Have Graphs:

This is us! Posts per month, for every month I have full data on. The picture is pretty clear: we had a huge spike in 2004 (the partial data makes this massively clear), a broad peak 2012-15, and now we've settled into a gentle downward drift. It looks like it might have plateaued - I'll have to pull in the 2019&20 posts to be sure though. (I think we may actually have picked up since mid-2020...)

But quiet though we may be, there's still a lot of us! Those 1500 posts this year come from 95 different usernames, and while a handful of those are aliases, most aren't. The top posters are pretty prolific, too: here's the top 10.

Huinesoron: 235 Neshomeh: 207 Ki no Shirayuki: 175 Midnight: 105 Kittyauthor: 84 Tomash: 60 Iximaz: 49 Thoth: 45 Zingenmir: 44 Scapegrace: 40

There's another 17 with 10 or more posts across 2021, including one "Ekwy" who's posted 14 times ^_~. We've got a nice solid mix of relative newbies, mid-to-oldbies, and the Seriously Ancientbies like me, Neshomeh, and indeed you. :)

So yeah, things have slowed down - but we're still here.

hS

PS: If you haven't quite scratched the nostalgia itch yet, I, er... have some of the early Board's subject lines archived. It can be fun to look down them and remember all the people we saw them with when they were first created. :) ~hS

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