Sifting through logs on an old Telnet #BBS. You might be surprised to learn that it's still quite active after 30 years!
* 182 individuals have logged on in the past year
* 101 in the past 3 months
* 68 in October
Since 6th October: 399 comments in 62 posts on different themes. 32 individuals so around half come on just to read and catch up.
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There's often debate as to "what do we do when the lights go out" which seems inevitable as we get older. And "should we bother trying to keep it going?"
OTOH: 18 people created an account in the last year, though to my knowledge, there isn't an onboarding, welcome committee sort of thing.
Out of curiosity, going to promote this a bit on Mastodon and see if there's a) any interest here, and b) whether we can actually bring new users into the fold. Have we lost all inertia? Is the community too set in it's ways?