Here are the posts and comments which Uncommon Descent received for each month from Apr 2005 until Dec 2018. The area of the circles is proportional to the number of views those posts gathered until mid-February 2019 (and most probably starting sometimes in 2011…)
The years can be seen more clearly in the faceted view:
Views, Comments, and Articles per Year
| Year | Articles | Comments | Views |
| 2005 | 600 | 9000 | 125000 |
| 2006 | 1100 | 23000 | 274000 |
| 2007 | 900 | 23000 | 527000 |
| 2008 | 800 | 23000 | 413000 |
| 2009 | 900 | 41000 | 446000 |
| 2010 | 900 | 25000 | 359000 |
| 2011 | 2900 | 42000 | 1701000 |
| 2012 | 2000 | 28000 | 1407000 |
| 2013 | 1700 | 43000 | 1503000 |
| 2014 | 2300 | 58000 | 1784000 |
| 2015 | 1900 | 51000 | 1038000 |
| 2016 | 1900 | 27000 | 812000 |
| 2017 | 1600 | 24000 | 719000 |
| 2018 | 1700 | 22000 | 844000 |
Articles with the most Comments per Year
Articles with the most Views per Year
Somewhat Amusing Oddity
The article with the least number of eyeballs was 2011’s Cash awards available for research or essays on the uses and abuses of biology : though two users commented (one of them BornAgain77 with an off topic), it was visited only 17 times until Feb 25, 2019 (The average number of views for articles in 2011 was 660). I suppose that most robots will not follow links which are promising “cash awards”!
Conclusion
Not much to see, really. UD is soldiering on after their peak in 2014. The lack of inter-monthly volatility over the last couple of years indicates that traffic at UD does not depend so much on outside influences (like news), but on the set of the same acteurs…
Thanks for posting this, DiEb.
I sense a decline in interest in “Intelligent Design” over the last couple of years or so. I put that down to it no longer being needed as a strategy to advance religious ideas in US public school science classes.
Have to say that UD can justly be called “a growing concern.” Distressing, even.
Because Darwinism is already dead?
What happened around 2014 that made it peak around that time?
At least in my personal interactions with people, it seems like ID has won the debate.
Someone must have resurrected Darwinism… lol
And? What happened after? It’s 2019 and Darwin still Devolves …
Looks like you just need to interact with smarter people
When was the great amnesty?
The advent of News perhaps?
ID is fine. UD is not. it censors and banns people unjustly and dumbly.
If it was more free it would be better and maybe be rising in attention and not a slight decline.
I’m YEC but if ID is the good guys thy NEVER should act like the bad guys in history. NO CENSORSHIP. its immoral and illegal in free nations.
Credibility comes from free intellectual discourcse and not from POSTERS, however exalted, being desired and so obeying their demands for censorship of unwelcome ideas/conclusions.
UD does strike terror into bad guys everywhere but don’t attack good guys anywhere.
Be better and smarter for having the honour of propagating cool scientific revolutions.
2014 was my last year and 2013/2014 best years and I was nearly appointed moderator of UD.
There was a modest YEC following there, but my dismissal probably soured a few people especially when Barry said to take my YEC elsewhere, among other things.
Thanks DiEb for doing this research. Much appreciated.
Rumraket:
DNA_Jock:
It was in October of 2014:
keiths,
And it was Oct/Nov/Dec where UD saw North of 7500 comments a month.
Halcyon days, indeed.
You mean like how you’ve been “winning” since 1859? xD Of course, your personal experience is a good indication of a general trend, and not at all likely to suffer form confirmation bias (like you better remembering the “hits”, and forgetting or being less emotionally affected by the “misses”).
Ironically, life has been “devolving” increased diversity and complexity since it’s origin too. Just ask Behe.
I’m afraid it is not enough to strongly hold this belief, you have to close your eyes and click the heels of your magic shoes three times, too!
The number of 79 unique editors in Dec 2019 is the lowest since Jun 2005.
Darwinism, or Darwinism plus whatever mechanism is predicted by Darwinism, have gotta be true thanks to these stats…
BTW: I’m not very fond of UD… Bury Alligator creeps me out though… 😉
While moderrator , or almost, did you do, or consent, to banning other people?
I asked you before, perhaps didn’t notice, but didn’t you, unless I’m wrong, have a blog/forum that was accessed at UD some years ago? There was one and i think it was you.
anyways on it was a thread about greeland bedrock and issues of glacial action on it. I can’t find the articles about this subject ANYWHERE(google scholar etc).
Can you direct or tell me the name or if the old blog can be found on the internet or anything?
If its gone at least tell me.(it was one of the last threads i believe)
Thanks..
Not sure about the great UD amnesty … Im still banned. And Im not all that bad, just a little.
Was there a amnesty. ?Hey I’ll try. i don’t know my bad quotient(BQ)
graham2,
The amnesty didn’t last. The returnees immediately started pwning Barry and his cronies. For example, I caught Barry deleting an entire OP along with the comments in order to cover up a dumb mistake of his.
It’s hard for Barry to keep his finger off the ban button when he and his ID buddies are being humiliated right and left.
keiths,
That Barry is a piece of work, isn’t he ?
graham2,
No kidding. Right around that time, timothya discovered this, from Barry’s “personal statement” on his bankruptcy law website:
What a hypocrite.
And that is why Jesus liked to hang out with sinners and not with scribes and Pharisees.
Welcome back keiths.
CharlieM:
Thanks, Charlie.
Hypocrisy appears to be the primary moral principle for the religious right.
I notice it’s endemic in all the people who do not share my opinions.
petrushka,
🙂
#Me Too
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