A user counted as active in each day if they had created a post or comment in the past 14 days
I wonder what the ratio of active users to lurkers are. There have definitely been times when I’ve been here but haven’t commented for 2 weeks.
EDIT: ok so I did some tangential math. If we have ~1375 active users out of 20,000 accounts, then ~7% of the site actively produces content. In reality, the % is even higher if you factor in alts/dead accounts, but I don’t know if that’s possible :shrug-outta-hecks:. It also can get lower if you factor in the density of posting (I post once and someone else posts 100 times, so technically we’re both “active” but the site depends much more on this smaller minority of super posters.) Overall though, if we look at the 1% rule, which I admittedly don’t know the validity of, then Hexbear :hexbear-retro: is actually overachieving!
I likely only count as active less than 20% of the time. I wonder how many people are similar
When do you comment? Is it cause it is something pertaining to your day life?
2 weeks? Consider 2 months. I feel like I hardly have something worthwhile to contribute.
I rarely have anything worthwhile to contribute but I comment anyway cuz I like notifications :blob-no-thoughts:
infinite growth is the ideology of cancer :zizek-joy:
theres more of us here than i’d have guessed! we’re a healthy little community :Care-Comrade:
This is a great size in my opinion: big enough for a diversity of personality, knowledge, and opinion, but small enough to feel like a fairly intimate community where the regulars actually get to know most of the other people.
I’m almost 40. Being here reminds me of being on early BBS communities in the 1990s, and I love it. The death of that kind of thing after around 2012ish because of :reddit-logo: and Facebook was a real tragedy, and the internet was a better place when more things like :sicko-hexbear: existed.
That’s fuckin wild. Usually activity spikes on brand new services are much higher than the number of retained users. The stability of the population is crazy.
