Daniel N. wrote:Maybe this would illustrate the data above, all years compared:
Oh. So there has always been an October/November slump...
Daniel N. wrote:Maybe this would illustrate the data above, all years compared:
iguanamon wrote:rdearman wrote:Something I have noticed, is a marked decline in new beginner members. We just don't seem to be attracting them anymore. Whether that is due to more information about language-learning in general being available, a general decline in interest in language-learning, a movement away from forums in general, difficulty in finding the new forum, or some combination of all these factors is not readily apparent to me. Sure, answering the same questions, over and over again gets old after a while but nowadays we rarely see them at all.
arthaey wrote:Daniel N. wrote:Oh. So there has always been an October/November slump...
sctroyenne wrote:I wonder about this stuff too. I wonder if language learning was a general blogger "fad" for a while that has kind of passed. I remember there were tons of personal development blogs a few years ago on productivity and things like language learning - I wonder if they've moved on to other personal development projects (or if it was just me who moved on). I'd also be interested to see forum membership and activity compared to, say, Reddit's which I suspect has been replacing specialty forums among young people for a lot of subject areas.
Montmorency wrote:And what is it that happens towards the end of the year?
People winding down from work, other study, and other activities, spending more time indoors in the warm, and anticipating language-related presents?
(Although even that was apparently dropping off in recent years).
Montmorency wrote:I'm wondering if forums generally are not as popular as they once were. Do they not work all that well on small portable devices? I haven't followed that trend myself (at least not for now), but I realise that most of the world does seem to have gone that way. I've also noticed that this trend has affected emails. They seems to be shorter, and some people seem to have moved off email altogether, or largely, or if they still have it, are rather resistant to using it much. Don't quite understand it myself, but I'm clearly not in touch with the Zeitgeist.
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