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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, May 5 - 11, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 07 May 2014 04:43:41PM -1 points [-]

The LW census get's every year more participants. If LW would be dying I would expect the opposite.

Comment author: Brillyant 07 May 2014 06:18:09PM 8 points [-]

I'm not sure total participants is a good metric to use in making that determination. It depends on people's level of participation and engagment, I think.

Comment author: ChristianKl 08 May 2014 12:32:19AM 0 points [-]

When it comes to engagement we do have a bunch of in person meetups that we didn't have a few years ago.

Comment author: Nornagest 08 May 2014 12:48:37AM *  1 point [-]

There do seem to be more meetups globally, but I'd say the SF Bay Area meetup scene -- where MIRI is based and many prominent contributors live or have lived --- is well off its peaks. This is perhaps an unreasonable time to be saying so, since the South Bay and East Bay meetups have just gone through major shakeups and haven't yet stabilized; but even ignoring that we're well down from two or three years ago in terms of engagement with high-karma users, in terms of number of local meetup groups, and probably in terms of people as well.