Daily Tildes discussion - thoughts about the site's activity level
The activity on Tildes has been (mostly) slowly dropping for a while. To be clear up front, it's definitely not doing badly at all and I'm not worried about it—it's still very good for how early...
The activity on Tildes has been (mostly) slowly dropping for a while. To be clear up front, it's definitely not doing badly at all and I'm not worried about it—it's still very good for how early this is, the fact that the site is invite-only, and that we haven't had a real "burst" of people for almost a month now.
Just as a point of comparison, saidit.net (a reddit clone that's been trying to get attention and doesn't have restricted registration) has had 9 comments and 3 submissions posted in the last 24 hours. Tildes is far, far better off than that and is already doing better than most community sites ever get to. Here's the last month of stats:
Date | Comments | Topics |
---|---|---|
2018-06-13 | 1040 | 67 |
2018-06-14 | 827 | 69 |
2018-06-15 | 832 | 43 |
2018-06-16 | 467 | 30 |
2018-06-17 | 377 | 31 |
2018-06-18 | 828 | 85 |
2018-06-19 | 662 | 64 |
2018-06-20 | 883 | 82 |
2018-06-21 | 926 | 75 |
2018-06-22 | 553 | 42 |
2018-06-23 | 479 | 37 |
2018-06-24 | 280 | 32 |
2018-06-25 | 634 | 62 |
2018-06-26 | 666 | 48 |
2018-06-27 | 691 | 37 |
2018-06-28 | 433 | 45 |
2018-06-29 | 415 | 58 |
2018-06-30 | 299 | 29 |
2018-07-01 | 369 | 41 |
2018-07-02 | 239 | 36 |
2018-07-03 | 353 | 45 |
2018-07-04 | 338 | 39 |
2018-07-05 | 501 | 31 |
2018-07-06 | 485 | 39 |
2018-07-07 | 378 | 36 |
2018-07-08 | 422 | 28 |
2018-07-09 | 445 | 34 |
2018-07-10 | 424 | 43 |
2018-07-11 | 352 | 37 |
2018-07-12 | 298 | 31 |
So the numbers are still quite good overall, but there's an obvious downward trend in there. I'd like to talk about what you think is behind this—is it just a bit of a feedback loop, where the activity isn't very high, so people get bored and the activity drops more? Or are there other causes? For those of you that feel like you're drifting away a bit, are there any particular reasons, or anything that would encourage you to participate here more?
We probably also just need another influx of users before much longer—it's been nice for me to have it a little quieter so I can focus on coding things more than community-management lately, but we're obviously not at the point yet where the activity is self-sustaining. On that note, I haven't given out invite codes for a while, so I've given everyone 5 again. You can get them here (and always, if you need more for a particular reason, just send me a message and let me know): https://tildes.net/invite
Let me know what you think. There are still quite a few high-priority things that I'm trying to get done in the near future, but if there are other changes we could make to try to help keep the site active, I think they're definitely worth considering.