stats of LJ and its clones/forks

[charmian]

I switched to the purple site scheme.

Glancing at the stats of LJ and its clones/forks:

LJ:
* Total accounts: 19591796
* ... active in some way: 2366491
* ... that have ever updated: 11485730
* ... updating in last 30 days: 1351806
* ... updating in last 7 days: 684338
* ... updating in past 24 hours: 252783 (though what percentage of those are bots?)

IJ:
* Total accounts: 402349
* ... active in some way: 78986
* ... that have ever updated: 200043
* ... updating in last 30 days: 32212
* ... updating in last 7 days: 13065
* ... updating in past 24 hours: 3644

JF:

* Total accounts: 19690
* ... active in some way: 2126
* ... that have ever updated: 8859
* ... updating in last 30 days: 518
* ... updating in last 7 days: 309
* ... updating in past 24 hours: 108

DW:

Total Accounts: 90185
# That are active in some way: 7778
# That have ever updated: 2664
# That have updated in last 30 days: 2644
# That have updated in the last 7 days: 2485
# That have updated in the last 24 hours: 959

I wonder if DW will have any effect on LJ as a business?

Possibly, some media fans will leave LJ for Dreamwidth, although I am not sure if this will have a very large effect at all. Maybe a couple of thousand people? This may have a small effect on LJ revenue.

Also, some volunteers may leave LJ and volunteer at DW. What effect this could have is unknown.

However, since SUP's main business is the Russian language, probably DW will not affect that unless someone starts up a Russian language DW clone.

Comments

[torachan]

Does DW really have ninety thousand accounts already? That seems like it must be a typo.

I hadn't realised JF had dwindled quite that much. Not even 3000 active accounts.

[charmian]

I have no idea.

Huh, how active was JF back in the day? Seems like most of the activity on JF is concentrated on comms like f_w and lol_meme, tho.

[torachan]

Maybe it's counting OpenID accounts? I just can't imagine there can be 90,000 real accounts when just the other day they had 1000.

JF used to be more active than that, certainly. Definitely a lot of activity is in comms, though, and always has been.

(There's something weird with your style, btw. The text box runs behind the sidebar. ETA: In fact, the reason I had to edit this is because I had a typo I couldn't see behind the sidebar!)

[charmian]

Yeah. I'm not sure what in the world is up w/ that.

Huh! I'm using an official style and everything. I guess I'll change back to zesty.

[torachan]

The more I think about it, the more OpenIDs makes sense, because in addition to all the people who have created their own OpenIDs, it also creates OpenID accounts automatically for everyone whose comments are imported.

[charmian]

Ohhh! That's right. That would indeed possibly create ninety thousand, because people who have been around a long time with public journals do tend to rack up a lot of commenters.