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On 9/17/2014 6:53 PM, mukti wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:11:54 PM UTC-3, clifford wrote:
>
>     There was then a dearth of interesting problems for a while.  I am
>     not sure that that one controversy and its two main participants
>     should be used to make any general claims about Lojban's popularity,
>     etc.
>
>
> To be clear, I'm not trying to measure /popularity/ so much as /activity
> /-- not how many people have been exposed to lojban or what their
> sentiments are towards it, but rather, the extent to which people are
> actively discussing and using lojban. For these purposes, an extended
> debate about some aspect of lojban is a positive indicator. A lack of
> "interesting problems" -- problems and/or interest -- registers as a
> negative indication. (Disgusted silence would also count as a negative
> -- it seems to me that it ought to!)

The problem is that "interesting problems" of the sort mentioned 
indicate a lot of activity by a very few people, but the activity itself 
drives other people away, especially when it a) look esoteric and B) 
seems to imply incompleteness of design.

I've always considered the more important number to be the number of 
"uniques"- different people who post (not subscribers but actual 
posters), as showing growth of the community and confidence on the part 
of new people that they can indeed contribute.

But I'm not sure how easy that is to measure on other-than mailing lists.

lojbab

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