Is the amount of activity here on PCF getting less?

[EndersGame]

Someone just did an analysis on the statistics of The Magic Cafe.  Posting there has declined significantly as well:



See the full article over here on Quantified Magic:

User Activity on The Magic Cafe Continues to Decline

There's some interesting reactions and discussion about the article over on Reddit here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Magic/comments/oa7g3e/user_activity_on_the_magic_caf%C3%A9_continues_to

[Don Boyer]

Someone just did an analysis on the statistics of The Magic Cafe.  Posting there has declined significantly as well:

I wish I could say it wasn't, but yes - it is.

At this point, I wonder if even Reddit is doing as well as other, more video-/image-oriented social media sites, like Instagram or Facebook.  I get the feeling that the sites that are more visually engaging are more of interest to a modern audience.  Too many words, and the eyes start to glaze over...

I used to have a friend who, despite being around the same age as me, was more like a millennial in his mindset.  Any time I sent him an email with more that two sentences, his attention span tripped its circuit breaker!  Many people, especially younger people, would rather be given visual information than something to read, having been brought up in a very visual age.

[EndersGame]

At this point, I wonder if even Reddit is doing as well as other, more video-/image-oriented social media sites, like Instagram or Facebook.  I get the feeling that the sites that are more visually engaging are more of interest to a modern audience.  Too many words, and the eyes start to glaze over...

There is some truth to that.  But I think Reddit is doing fine because some subreddits are very much image and video based.  The number of subscribers on a lot of such subreddits is trending upwards, and is increasing at a faster rate than a straight line.

For example, the Playing Cards subreddit recently hit 25,000 subscribers.  I did some analysis of the figures here, and noted that less than a year previous to that the subreddit was still under 16,000 subscribers. That's means there were over 9,000 new subscribers over a twelve months period, which represents an impressive 62% growth.

The trend for the cardistry reddit is also going upwards, as you can see from the metrics here: https://frontpagemetrics.com/r/cardistry

Both of these subreddits feature a lot of pictures and videos.  The again, even discussion based subreddits like r/boardgames are trending upwards: https://frontpagemetrics.com/r/boardgames

[Don Boyer]

At this point, I wonder if even Reddit is doing as well as other, more video-/image-oriented social media sites, like Instagram or Facebook.  I get the feeling that the sites that are more visually engaging are more of interest to a modern audience.  Too many words, and the eyes start to glaze over...

There is some truth to that.  But I think Reddit is doing fine because some subreddits are very much image and video based.  The number of subscribers on a lot of such subreddits is trending upwards, and is increasing at a faster rate than a straight line.

For example, the Playing Cards subreddit recently hit 25,000 subscribers.  I did some analysis of the figures here, and noted that less than a year previous to that the subreddit was still under 16,000 subscribers. That's means there were over 9,000 new subscribers over a twelve months period, which represents an impressive 62% growth.

The trend for the cardistry reddit is also going upwards, as you can see from the metrics here: https://frontpagemetrics.com/r/cardistry

Both of these subreddits feature a lot of pictures and videos.  The again, even discussion based subreddits like r/boardgames are trending upwards: https://frontpagemetrics.com/r/boardgames

Good to know that the printed word isn't entirely dead!

Maybe the advantage of the reddits versus the forums is that they have pretty much everything imaginable under one roof, as fat as conversations.  They're a clearinghouse of information on a much wider variety of topics than a forum that's focused on a single topic, even if it's trying to cover as many aspects of that topic as possible.