Earlier today I wanted to quantify whether lesswrong has stopped being a well kept garden.
Before you look at the numbers, what metrics are you going to use to quantify this?
posts per month, upvotes per month. (i understand score is positive minus negative, but it cancels out). potentially comments per month too, but I didn't fetch that data. substitute month for your preferred granularity of course.
You can find it here.
Earlier today I wanted to quantify whether lesswrong has stopped being a well kept garden. So I wrote a scraper to produce the above dataset, so that anyone that wants to do the analysis, can.
All data is as of a few minutes ago.
For programmers: You can see the source here, it's made to run on scraperwiki, but it will time out after about 3000 articles. At that point you need to adjust the initial value of the uri variable to be the last uri printed. Repeating this process once more will allow you to reach the end. Have fun.