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@Wendell_Wagner

Is it really true that there are much fewer people posting to the SDMB now than in 2004? Does anyone have any numbers? I don’t know how to get numbers on how many people are regularly posting to the SDMB in any time period.

Yeah. I made a thread about it here. Was just looking at the more recent history, but this post by Giraffe showed average numbers over the last 5 years:

@Giraffe

Here’s the data on daily averages since 2010:

2010: Threads: 117, Posts: 3,730
2011: Threads: 109, Posts: 3,582
2012: Threads: 99, Posts: 3,339
2013: Threads: 89, Posts: 3,058
2014: Threads: 76, Posts: 2,861
2015: Threads: 81, Posts: 2,572

So we’re down about 30% over the past five years. And the trend is not encouraging.

I don’t even know what it’d look like going back to '04. But it was probably even higher then.