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2017 Annual Activity Report
Topic Started: Jan 4 2018, 07:30 PM (233 Views)
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NEW MEMBERS
Monthly Average: 24
Record High: 37 in February
Total: 289

Despite a steady drop near the end of the year, membership is up by 69% from last year. Looking at the member groups, however, reveals that only around 25% of our nearly 2000 members have more than ten posts and that the vast majority of visitors to the forum continue to be unregistered guests.

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TOPICS CREATED
Monthly Average: 75
Record High: 152 in February
Total: 897

Seems like despite having a higher monthly record in topic creation, overall creation of new topics dropped by 12% in 2017.

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POSTS CREATED
Monthly Average: 3197
Record High: 4307 in February
Total: 38,367

Total posts are down across the board, with a 22% reduction in posts in 2017.

MOST VIEWED FORUMS
1. Hall of Fame: 118,008
2. Evolutionary Continuum: 99,846
3. General Discussion: 81,433
4. Official Competitions: 69,889
5. Alternative Evolution: 64,408

It looks like we peaked in February of 2017 and have been going downhill the rest of the year. It was a pretty trying year though, and I can't really blame anybody for having other things on their mind than the forum. We got a lot of new members, but less activity, likely from the growth of the Speculative Evolution tumblr blog, which went from having only a few hundred followers to 14,756 by the end of 2017, as well as the growing popularity of the SE Discord server (PM Flisch for an invite), where you can find a lot of members and usually some staff online at any given time. For 2018 I would like to make a new, updated default theme based on Estuary and get the activity level on the forum to a more consistent level. If you have any suggestions for changes you would like to see made to the forum you can post them here. Although I am a few days late on behalf of the SE staff I would like to wish you all a happy new year, and the best of luck in achieving your goals in 2018!
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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