The hypothesis is: the value of the site technical functionality to the average user is mostly the posts, comments and votes. That’s already built so the work on the margin hasn’t increased the value that much. The real room for variation is the value of the content (writing) on the site. The value of that content is modest (not huge) and static (not growing).
Clarifying:
The hypothesis is: the value of the site technical functionality to the average user is mostly the posts, comments and votes. That’s already built so the work on the margin hasn’t increased the value that much. The real room for variation is the value of the content (writing) on the site. The value of that content is modest (not huge) and static (not growing).