Timeline for Why are some Stack Exchange sites so inactive?
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Jun 28 at 8:28 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
Dec 4, 2023 at 13:09 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 10 | |
Dec 1, 2023 at 18:31 | comment | added | Mast | Yea, this is what the front page of ebooks.SE looks like. | |
Nov 26, 2023 at 1:59 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 2 | |
Nov 23, 2023 at 4:07 | comment | added | Rubén | Another related post What new things can be done to increase participation in MSE? | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 14:58 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @JourneymanGeek I mean sites that were never really active, even in the beginning. Maybe they shouldn't have launched, i.e. requirements should be set higher, but that's for a different discussion I guess. | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 14:34 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | @ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry healthy communities take work - "natural" death can be lack of interest, or sometimes a lack of care. And healthy communities need work, care and tending. | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 13:25 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @Journeyman is correct, some sites are "naturally" dying, e.g. Health.SE (now medical science SE) which never had much activity, and went through several revival attempts. And there are others which are just almost inactive from the beginning, which I think is fine: as long as something is there, even slow, it's fine and can keep going, until activity really drops to 0, or the sites can't moderate themselves. | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 13:22 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @Rubén actually no, I don't think that it is strongly related. Related yes, but sites were inactive for very long time, regardless of recent events or management mishaps. | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 11:42 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
Nov 22, 2023 at 2:57 | comment | added | Rubén | Strongly related: Stack Exchange is failing its community | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 2:25 | comment | added | starball | loosely related: Why is traffic on some of SE sites stagnant or in decline, and what is the destiny of such sites? | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 2:06 | answer | added | Rubén | timeline score: 5 | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 1:52 | history | edited | Rubén |
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Nov 22, 2023 at 1:49 | comment | added | Laurel | You're not even the first person this week to come here to Meta to complain about how little activity Writing SE gets. That post contains the briefest of summaries of what happened, but if you had time to kill, you could read a summary of what happened in 2019, noting that Monica was a Writing mod (among other sites) and #8 "Other moderators resigned" included every single last moderator on Writing in 2019. | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 0:32 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | Depends on the site. Writing got it pretty bad cause one of their moderators was removed, and the company mishandled their response to it. Stellar is quiet cause we don't need a half dozen cryptocurrency sites | |
Nov 22, 2023 at 0:08 | history | edited | CDR | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Nov 22, 2023 at 0:07 | comment | added | CDR | You think Writing is inactive? See Stellar, whose top-rep user this year has earned...50 reputation, and has only one user who's voted more than five times. Not a single post made this year has garnered more than one vote. | |
Nov 21, 2023 at 23:53 | history | asked | user1431429 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |