in reply to Perl Monks in numbers?
As a hobby, I record the number of votes received by the best nodes of the month and year at Re: Selected best nodes - nothing recent, why? (Node Reputation Ranges Over the Years). As you can see from that node, while there was a significant drop around 2009, the number of votes for best nodes of the month/year has been stable for the past year. That said, the pre-2009 glory days, when all twenty best nodes of the year were 100+ and a really good node garnered over 200 votes, appear to be over.
I speculate without proof that we lost quite a few users (e.g. brian d foy) after the "hacked catastrophe of 2009" -- which may partly explain the drop in votes received by the best nodes of the month/year around that time. Changes to the Perl monks levels/voting may also have had an impact.
See also:
- Perl Monks in numbers?
- Average Node XP per Month
- Selected best nodes - nothing recent, why?
- Re: Selected best nodes - nothing recent, why? (Node Reputation Ranges Over the Years)
- Statistics about PerlMonks
- PerlMonks statistics
- Re: Perl is dead by grinder
- Top level node creation trend update (by fenLisesi Feb 1 2008)
- Top level node creation trend update (by fenLisesi Mar 3 2008)
- Are monks hibernating?
- Fastest Rising Monks - Revisited
- More PM Stats
- Perl How Many
- Useless Statistics
Update: later nodes on similar topics:
- Is PM more active or less active than X years ago?
- Re: Is PM more active or less active than X years ago?
- Deflation and "Selected Best Nodes"
- The future of Perl?
- Terminal decline?
- Re^4: Terminal decline?
- Questions on Perlmonks