• LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I tried running a forum… With 24 hours I had 10k posts for Russian porn… And I followed best practices to set it up.

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      5 months ago

      I am running a forum (about web technologies), and have been doing so for about 24 years (damn. I’m old). I had some spam problems, but was able to get rid of it.

      It probably helps that I wrote the software myself (24 years ago there weren’t many forum software projects).

      But the traffic is declining. The peak was around 2003-2005, with >500 posts per day, and is slowly declining since then with a massive drop last year (about 19 posts per day). Young people only rarely use the forum anymore, despite massive modernization efforts, and the older people slowly disappear.

          1998 |   6686
          1999 |  40528
          2000 |  70379
          2001 |  41129
          2002 | 171294
          2003 | 203642
          2004 | 204685
          2005 | 173659
          2006 | 150000
          2007 | 135936
          2008 | 126283
          2009 |  94894
          2010 |  70333
          2011 |  48691
          2012 |  31197
          2013 |  30606
          2014 |  30227
          2015 |  29334
          2016 |  25472
          2017 |  27505
          2018 |  28551
          2019 |  22366
          2020 |  17250
          2021 |  12794
          2022 |  10135
          2023 |   7151
      

      If the trend continues we will shut it down in a year or two.