On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 3:39 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 4:05 PM Maxwell G <maxw...@gtmx.me> wrote: > > > > What evidence shows that the group is ever shrinking? I often see Self > > Introduction posts and new people interacting with project. I suppose > > that whether they continue interacting afterwards is another question. > > I'm glad you asked. Earlier this week I decided to avoid doing other > work by putting together some quick charts of devel list > participation. Here's the number of unique participants per month from > 2004–2022: > https://bcotton.fedorapeople.org/images/devel-participation-monthly.png > > And for a less-noisy version, the median of the monthly numbers per year: > https://bcotton.fedorapeople.org/images/devel-participation-mean.png And on discourse you could have pasted these pictures directly in without having to upload them somewhere... ;) > There are a lot of questions left unanswered by this quick analysis, > but there's a clear trend in fewer participants over time. In fact, > last month had the second smallest participant count (tied with > October 2022). Of course, these charts don't show _why_, but they do > support the assertion that folks are dropping out of the conversation > faster than others are joining. > I think this is especially concerning because Fedora seems to be more popular than ever. If we had a way to measure that and include it in the graph (devel participants as a % of users?) I have a feeling the slope would be much more negative. Not that it proves Discourse would change that, but still... Thanks, Richard
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