TNP Forum Activity History

[Eluvatar]

I was inspired to look into this by our recently passing 300 thousand posts.

Monthly posts on this forum

Spoiler: raw data

Date [c]Posts[c]November 2014 [c]6,716[c]October 2014 [c]2,839[c]September 2014 [c]4,221[c]August 2014 [c]2,522[c]July 2014 [c]4,000[c]June 2014 [c]5,302[c]May 2014 [c]4,850[c]April 2014 [c]4,107[c]March 2014 [c]4,057[c]February 2014 [c]2,078[c]January 2014 [c]3,064[c]December 2013 [c]3,028[c]November 2013 [c]3,053[c]October 2013 [c]3,439[c]September 2013 [c]3,983[c]August 2013 [c]2,458[c]July 2013 [c]2,790[c]May 2013 [c]4,881[c]May 2013 [c]3,186[c]April 2013 [c]2,401[c]March 2013 [c]3,416[c]February 2013 [c]2,417[c]January 2013 [c]3,605[c]December 2012 [c]2,973[c]November 2012 [c]5,680[c]October 2012 [c]2,068[c]September 2012 [c]3,579[c]August 2012 [c]5,053[c]July 2012 [c]3,664[c]June 2012 [c]4,431[c]May 2012 [c]2,403[c]April 2012 [c]1,962[c]March 2012 [c]1,616[c]February 2012 [c]753[c]January 2012 [c]765[c]December 2011 [c]475[c]November 2011 [c]501[c]October 2011 [c]2,066[c]September 2011 [c]1,217[c]August 2011 [c]386[c]July 2011 [c]505[c]June 2011 [c]539[c]May 2011 [c]2,099[c]April 2011 [c]1,234[c]March 2011 [c]2,212[c]February 2011 [c]6,260[c]January 2011 [c]3,120[c]December 2010 [c]937[c]November 2010 [c]864[c]October 2010 [c]1,255[c]September 2010 [c]392[c]August 2010 [c]401[c]July 2010 [c]373[c]June 2010 [c]342[c]May 2010 [c]384[c]April 2010 [c]62[c]March 2010 [c]308[c]February 2010 [c]342[c]January 2010 [c]815[c]December 2009 [c]348[c]November 2009 [c]457[c]October 2009 [c]668[c]September 2009 [c]730[c]August 2009 [c]635[c]July 2009 [c]507[c]June 2009 [c]669[c]May 2009 [c]912[c]April 2009 [c]1,056[c]March 2009 [c]461[c]February 2009 [c]899[c]January 2009 [c]1,087[c]December 2008 [c]1,080[c]November 2008 [c]1,265[c]October 2008 [c]2,492[c]September 2008 [c]2,038[c]August 2008 [c]650[c]July 2008 [c]646[c]June 2008 [c]1,289[c]May 2008 [c]1,497[c]April 2008 [c]1,739[c]March 2008 [c]1,387[c]February 2008 [c]1,616[c]January 2008 [c]3,366[c]December 2007 [c]1,838[c]November 2007 [c]1,820[c]September 2007 [c]2,398[c]August 2007 [c]2,929[c]August 2007 [c]3,861[c]July 2007 [c]2,527[c]June 2007 [c]2,150[c]May 2007 [c]4,544[c]April 2007 [c]4,936[c]March 2007 [c]6,597[c]February 2007 [c]4,884[c]January 2007 [c]5,432[c]December 2006 [c]5,422[c]November 2006 [c]6,070[c]October 2006 [c]7,276[c]September 2006 [c]4,602[c]August 2006 [c]6,398[c]July 2006 [c]7,850[c]May 2006 [c]4,570[c]May 2006 [c]3,977[c]April 2006 [c]4,089[c]March 2006 [c]3,776[c]February 2006 [c]5,185[c]January 2006 [c]8,495[c]December 2005 [c]7,733[c]November 2005 [c]3,816[c][c][c]Average: [c]2,708[c]Record High: January 2006 [c]8,495[c]Total: [c]295,118

I find it notable that we have only now returned to the level of activity of later 2006, and have not met the level of december 2005 since. There's also a very visible downward hockey stick beginning in mid-2007 and a very visible transition upward in mid-2012 in activity terms.

 

[Syrixia]

Still, though, this is...impressive.

 

[Crushing Our Enemies]

What happened in early 2011? Coup?

 

[Eluvatar]

What happened in early 2011? Coup?

I believe there was a revival attempt in which Dalimbar was elected Delegate and organized a Council of State of a number of ministers.

However Dalimbar had to resign for ooc reasons, leaving Blackshear to take over a less active group.

I could be wrong about the timing there, however.

 

[Grosseschnauzer]

The dip and bounceback pretty well matches the global and US economy from 2007 to now. That in fact had a lot to do with it, because a lot of people couldn't afford being online during the Great Recession, and the recovery has been slow and even those numbers are only now getting back to pre-recessionary levels. (For comparison, the first bubble burst of the subprime housing mortgage market was in mid-2007 when Countrywide Financial went bankrupt....
Yes, I think the two are related.