Re: We're in the top ten!

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:19 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:28:21 -0500, Rin Stowleigh
<rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote:
>

Really?  I've always found the less traveled paths to be the most
interesting.

>
There's the less traveled path and then there is the path so overgrown
that it doesn't really exist anymore and so no one is on it. I think
that is where this newsgroup is headed.

Well, Usenet as a whole. But as recent evidence suggests, CSIPGA
actually has a visible path again! Sure, it's overgrown and leads to
that scary delapidated old house that stories say was the home to a
serial murderer... but it's a path! ;-)




Still... those stats are scary. I don't know how accurate the rjk
spoolstats really are, but they don't seem TOO off from what I've
seen. And they don't paint a rosy picture for Usenet, sadly. He
reports only around 200 newsgroups that get at least one post a week,
and only 30 of them average one post a day! There's a very dramatic
drop-off last February (when Google killed its Usenet access), where
total posts dropped by at least a third. It's only a tiny handful of
groups where there is any real activity (and weirdly, CSIPGA is one of
them). Usenet is _not_ in a healthy place.

But at least CSIPGA isn't quite as close to death's door as it was,
even if its only by comparison to the rude health of the other groups.
Gotta take your positives where you can get 'em ;-)