When did Microchip start their forums? On 12/9/2014 2:59 PM, Anthony Toft wrote: > I wonder if doing analysis on the message content would show any light > on the cause? > > Perhaps the drop in quantity is related to the reducing of the number of > berating messages from Olin, and the replies they always seemed to > generate? > > > > > On 2014-12-09 14:43, Jesse Lackey wrote: >> In my archives (starting mid 2002), year 2003 was the peak at 37K >> messages, then 33K, 31K, 28,26,24,16,15.5,14,6.9,5.6 for 2013. I may >> of >> course have some missing but the serious drop in volume is >> unmistakeable. Probably will have 5.5K for 2014. >> >> I attribute it to (mainly) the availability and quality (both UI and >> content) of web forums, which were nearly nonexistent 10 years ago - >> personally I prefer mailing lists but I'm middle aged. Secondly most >> newbies start with Atmel now. >> >> I frankly don't miss Olin I have to admit. >> >> Thanks for the stack exchange tip. >> >> J >> >> >> RussellMc wrote: >>> On 10 December 2014 at 01:51, Nicola Perotto >>> wrote: >>> >>>> My Piclist archive is contained in 5 folders: >>>> >>>> from to days msgs msgs/day >>>> 2004.09.07 2006.08.20 712 14457 20,3 >>>> 2006.08.21 2008.08.31 741 14975 20,2 >>>> 2008.08.31 2010.07.31 699 28095 40,2 >>>> 2010.08.01 2012.12.31 883 22321 25,3 >>>> 2013.01.01 2014.12.09 707 11810 16,7 >>>> >>>> Thanks for the information. >>> This aside, I miss Olin. >>> >>> Join Stack Exchange Electronics as well - you can get a dose of Olin >>> (and >>> me and a number of other PICList members as well). >>> >>> >>> Russell McMahon >>> --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .