I've noticed the same thing. I put it down to the spam filtering issues that have been affecting users of some ISPs lately but maybe it's just that we're starting to smell bad.
Cheers, Dave > On Mar 19, 2015, at 3:03 pm, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Lately I've noticed that the volume of PDML posts is way down. So, > being off this week and having some spare time, I did some research in > the archives. > > In January 2015, there were 1234 posts from 52 members. > In January 2014, there were 2587 posts from 74 members. > In January 2013, there were 2667 posts from 70 members. > In January 2012, there were 3418 posts from 88 members. > In January 2011, there were 5091 posts from 109 members. > In January 2010, there were 4764 posts from 110 members. > > So, in five years, active members are down by half, and the number of > posts is down by 3/4. > > There is more competition than there used to be (especially, recently, > from Facebook), but IMHO the PDML remains the best (of many) photo > discussion venues I've used over the decades. It would be good to turn > around this decline. > > How do we draw in new members? How do we keep both new and existing members? > > Rick > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
