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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree. I post here as much for the lurker/readers as for the other registered users.

Also, the GC/trans critical forum that wonderful Peachy Yoghurt started, which I contributed to, unfortunately didn't really take off either. It got spammed with tons of porn every night too.

Are you referring to Gallus Mag's space/page/blog on WordPress? If so, I don't think makes sense to speak of its growth rate, or to compare it to r/gc or places like this. There's no way to tell how many people read Gallus Mag, or any other blog or website, unless the operators of those blogs/sites make that info available. Same goes for here & reddit. Registered users of a site/sub and people who visit and just read are two different things... Just like on YT viewers of particular vids and channels are different from subscribers. Apples & oranges.

Many people have kept information-packed blogs and websites on the issues we discuss here for many years that have been extremely influential. But as they do not publish info on their visitors, followers or subscribers, we can't know how "popular" they are.

Also, focusing on numbers of registered users, subscribers, views, likes and such seems just to place more emphasis on measuring superficial popularity and "influence" that today's social media is all about. I suspect that's not really a reliable or meaningful way of gauging the impact of ideas in the long run or in a broader sense.

Gallus Mag, if you're here or someone here knows you: thank you for your work. I read it for years and learned a lot. You really shined a light, well before so many of us realized how dark things were getting.

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gallus Mag is a superstar and did realize well before almost any of us how bad things were - thank you Gallus!