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Could this all be linked to rep, if people knew they might get rep for staying then they might stay and all that.
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If rep was the only reason they stayed it would be a pretty shit reason.
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Post hoc non ergo propter hoc. A whole bunch of things changed between "arbitrary time in the past when things seemed better" and now. Which of those things contributed to a slackening off in community feeling or community growth, which are incidental and which are just symptoms would be very hard to prove.
For example, compass beers mostly died (or became private meet-ups among people who aren't interested in having strangers along, which is another way of saying dead because that isn't compass beers). Was that a cause or a symptom?
More to your point, there's definitely a school of thought on the forum that the move to microcosm, whether through faults in the UI/features or because it was forced rather than planned, put a dampener on some of the community aspects. Some people have suggested that TNRC numbers dropped because the new UI made it less likely that people would stumble across TNRC in the first place. Was that true, or was it just that key people driving its momentum moved on?
Velocio
itsbruce
It's true, we've plateaued.
We've doing around 7,800 visitors per day, but around 190k per month. This is lower than it used to be. Which means we have a stronger core but fewer new people stopping by.
90-9-1 still applies.