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dreamwidth_meta2025-01-22 03:09 pm
florianschild) wrote in dreamwidth_meta2025-01-22 03:09 pm
A Graph of New Dreamwidth Users by Year
I was curious about how many people actually use Dreamwidth, and I found a lovely stats page that shows how many users have joined on every day the site has existed. I love the transparency!
So I downloaded the data into Excel and made this graph:
Thoughts on the decline of new users joining? Has anyone noticed a dropoff in traffic? Are people concerned or is having a larger user base not much of a priority for those of us who like our quiet internet corners? I personally would love to see Dreamwidth have more users and be more active.
The platform has limitations of course; many users these days don't want to use HTML or have to self-host their images. And while I understand the reasoning for not having an app, it's probably a limit to drawing in new users as well. I wonder what, if anything, it would take for this site to actually grow it's user base instead of maintaining/losing users year over year. I'm also not sure if the owners actually want growth either. There's something to be said, of course, for a business model built on sustainability rather than growth. I guess I'm just putting this out there to hear if anyone else has thoughts or concerns about the number of people on the platform.
I crossposted this from my own journal. I hope that's ok.
So I downloaded the data into Excel and made this graph:
Thoughts on the decline of new users joining? Has anyone noticed a dropoff in traffic? Are people concerned or is having a larger user base not much of a priority for those of us who like our quiet internet corners? I personally would love to see Dreamwidth have more users and be more active.
The platform has limitations of course; many users these days don't want to use HTML or have to self-host their images. And while I understand the reasoning for not having an app, it's probably a limit to drawing in new users as well. I wonder what, if anything, it would take for this site to actually grow it's user base instead of maintaining/losing users year over year. I'm also not sure if the owners actually want growth either. There's something to be said, of course, for a business model built on sustainability rather than growth. I guess I'm just putting this out there to hear if anyone else has thoughts or concerns about the number of people on the platform.
I crossposted this from my own journal. I hope that's ok.
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The stat to look at over time is probably the active in the last 30 days one. That gives a better picture of people who are actually using their journals, rather than people who sign up, post one entry, and never come back.
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I would definitely love to chart the active users in the past 30 days stat! Unfortunately, that one is only given for the current day. Maybe the site owners have the ability to write a query for it though, if there were enough interest.
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