Cap’n Refsmmat’s Blog of Doom

Back in November 2007 we had 5,977 posts made on SFN during the entire month. Not bad, although at our peak in May 2005 we had 12,000. Well, I just checked the numbers, and in the last month we had 7,521 posts.

We’re making definite progress. Our goal now is to increase our growth rate even more so SFN can be a productive and vibrant community. My personal goal is 500 posts per day — 15,000 posts per month.

Hey, we might be able to pull it off.

Over on SFN, we’ve been interested in figuring out how to stimulate growth and post volume to allow SFN to expand. It’s an interesting challenge — we have four large competitors (that I know of), and there is no simple “how to get more posts” procedure that we can follow. It’s a seat-of-the-pants venture.

To get a better handle on what we’re dealing with, I’ve compiled a graph and some handy statistics.
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