Does Atlas have less active users than it did 10 years ago?

[Virginiá]

# of posts in 2011: 367,461
# of posts in 2010: 474,189 (election year)
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# of posts in 2020: 747,754 (election year)
# of posts in 2019: 503,627

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MySQL results for # distinct users who posted in January of [year]:
jan2011_activeUsers :   321
jan2021_activeUsers :   827

Look at the stats page:

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=stats

The forum is clearly more active than it was 10 years ago.  Just look at the number of new posts per month, and the "most online" per month, etc.  Though maybe there wasn't anyone 10 years ago who was making +1000 posts per month like olawakandi does now, and so it's now more dominated by a few super-active posters?

I wasn't here back then but I didn't need to be to know that people like opebo, Keystone Phil and minionofmidas posted so much that they are STILL on the top 10 (or just recently slipped off - opebo) list despite mostly not posting in 5+ years. I'm sure there were other people like that, if not sticking around for as long.

[Virginiá]

# of posts in 2011: 367,461
# of posts in 2010: 474,189 (election year)
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# of posts in 2020: 747,754 (election year)
# of posts in 2019: 503,627

To be fair, comparing a midterm (2010) with a general (2020) is apples and oranges, a more accurate comparison might be comparing 2020 to 2012, or, more realistically, 2008. Doesn't really seem to be that important of a factor, but it's still worth considering.

True, I did 2010 because it actually had more posts than 2012 (2012 had 434,218 posts).