A few numbers: 

node number:     date:       days:
 100,000         26/07/2001
 200,000         23/09/2002   424
 300,000         17/10/2003   389
 400,000         17/10/2004   366
 500,000         13/10/2005   361
 600,000         14/02/2007   489
 700,000         24/07/2008   526
 800,000         08/10/2009   441
 900,000         18/04/2011   557
1000,000         19/10/2012   550
1100,000         09/09/2014   690
...
1130,000         11/06/2015   275 today.
...
1200,000         14/03/2017   (917)(projected)
1300,000         17/09/2020  (1283)(projected)

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Those are the dates on which the N-hundred-thousanth node was posted; and the number of days to accumulate that 100,000 posts.

Today we will likely reach 1,130,000. It will have taken 275 days to do so. projecting forward, 275 / 3 * 10 = 917 means it will be another 2 years before this place reaches the next 100,000 milestone.

It took 25% more days to accumulate the 11th 100,000 than it did the tenth.

Based on the projection, it will take 32% longer for the 12th than it did the 11th.

And projecting that rate of decline forward means that we won't reach the 13th milestone until September 2020.

You don't want to know about the one after that; because it won't happen.

There are 2 choices

  1. Do something.

    Open our minds. Invite new blood. Fight to retain (or even return) old blood.

    Change something.

  2. Do nothing.

    Continue as we are; cloistered in our declining; deteriorating; smug little world.

    And die!

Your choice guys. I've tried to liven this place up. Posted what I hoped would be interesting questions. Proposed change. Taken the insults.

Now its down to the rest of you. Hide in the shadows pouring scorn and derision upon any and every suggestion. Or stand up and be counted.

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I'm with torvalds on this
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