# Has board traffic gone down significantly?

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**Created:** [August 14, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-board-traffic-gone-down-significantly/727820 "2015-08-14T09:20:57Z")\
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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.

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