we need to figure out why people aren’t commenting much
My hypothesis would be that a) the ratio of post/day to visitors/day is higher on LW2 than it was on LW1, and so b) the comments are just spread more thin.
Would be curious whether the site stats bear that out.
To save everyone else some time, here’s the relevant graph, basically showing that amount of comments has remained fairly constant for the past 4 months at least (while a different graph showed traffic as rising, suggesting ESRog’s hypothesis seems true)
My hypothesis would be that a) the ratio of post/day to visitors/day is higher on LW2 than it was on LW1, and so b) the comments are just spread more thin.
Would be curious whether the site stats bear that out.
See the graphs I posted on this month’s open thread for some relevant data.
To save everyone else some time, here’s the relevant graph, basically showing that amount of comments has remained fairly constant for the past 4 months at least (while a different graph showed traffic as rising, suggesting ESRog’s hypothesis seems true)
This is great. Would love to see graphs going back further too, since Wei was asking about LW2 vs LW1, not just since earlier in the LW2 beta.