EAD by the numbers
Jan. 16th, 2020 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowsapiensJust for fun and reference!
I opened EAD on January 12, 2018 (pacific time). A year later, I double-checked that date using the original FFA promo. FFA time stamps are listed in UTC, which is why I went with Jan. 13 as the server's official birthday.
Is this me being internationally inclusive, or just me forgetting that time zones exist? I'll let that mystery remain...
I haven't noted every significant membership milestone, but here are the numbers I have easily on-hand:
January 2019: over 300
June 2019: 400
August 2019: 500
November 2019: 600
January 2020: 698
I regularly prune duplicate accounts, so the above numbers are a decent estimate of actual server population.
There was a big spike in (northern hemisphere) Summer 2019, due to the number of flash exchanges starting on the server. The first of the batch, We Die Like Fen, was a community event run primarily on the server, so a lot of people joined in order to take part. I saw similar spikes for Iron Triangle and other following exchanges. Most of them were less EAD-centric than WDLF, but anyone who wanted to claim pinch hits needed to be on the server.
There was an especially big spike the weekend Mpreg Flash and Writing Rainbow: Blue started - the mods for both of those exchanges included EAD invite links in their fandomcalendar ads.
I opened EAD on January 12, 2018 (pacific time). A year later, I double-checked that date using the original FFA promo. FFA time stamps are listed in UTC, which is why I went with Jan. 13 as the server's official birthday.
Is this me being internationally inclusive, or just me forgetting that time zones exist? I'll let that mystery remain...
I haven't noted every significant membership milestone, but here are the numbers I have easily on-hand:
January 2019: over 300
June 2019: 400
August 2019: 500
November 2019: 600
January 2020: 698
I regularly prune duplicate accounts, so the above numbers are a decent estimate of actual server population.
There was a big spike in (northern hemisphere) Summer 2019, due to the number of flash exchanges starting on the server. The first of the batch, We Die Like Fen, was a community event run primarily on the server, so a lot of people joined in order to take part. I saw similar spikes for Iron Triangle and other following exchanges. Most of them were less EAD-centric than WDLF, but anyone who wanted to claim pinch hits needed to be on the server.
There was an especially big spike the weekend Mpreg Flash and Writing Rainbow: Blue started - the mods for both of those exchanges included EAD invite links in their fandomcalendar ads.