80k’s metrics seems unaffected so far, and it’s one of the biggest drivers of community growth.
I’ve also heard that EAG(x) applications didn’t seem affected.
GWWC pledgers were down, though a lot of that is due to them not doing a pledge drive in Dec. My guess is that if they do a pledge drive next Dec similar to previous ones, the results will be similar. The baseline of monthly pledges seems ~similar.
I would be surprised if the effect from the lack of a pledge drive would run on into February and March 2023 though. Comparison YoY here is 12 months before, Jan 2023 to 2022 etc.
I wonder if it’s because gwwc has cut back outreach or is getting less promotion by other groups (whereas 80k continued it’s marketing as before, plus a lot of 80k’s reach is passive), or whether it points to outreach actually being harder now.
I included your comment about 80k’s metrics being largely unaffected, but if there’s some updated data on if/how 80k’s metrics have changed post-FTX that would be very interesting to see.
Traffic for the intro page on effectivealtruism.org is at the lowest level since the data starts in April 2017, and has been falling steadily since FTX.
The EA newsletter has been losing subscribers steadily since FTX (i.e. people are unsubscribing faster than new people have started subscribing)
Interesting! Can you share details? (Or point to where others have?)
Some of the ones I’ve seen:
80k’s metrics seems unaffected so far, and it’s one of the biggest drivers of community growth.
I’ve also heard that EAG(x) applications didn’t seem affected.
GWWC pledgers were down, though a lot of that is due to them not doing a pledge drive in Dec. My guess is that if they do a pledge drive next Dec similar to previous ones, the results will be similar. The baseline of monthly pledges seems ~similar.
I would be surprised if the effect from the lack of a pledge drive would run on into February and March 2023 though. Comparison YoY here is 12 months before, Jan 2023 to 2022 etc.
Hmm that does seem worse than I expected.
I wonder if it’s because gwwc has cut back outreach or is getting less promotion by other groups (whereas 80k continued it’s marketing as before, plus a lot of 80k’s reach is passive), or whether it points to outreach actually being harder now.
FYI I’ve just released a post which offers significantly more empirical data on how FTX has impacted EA. FTX’s collapse seems to mark a clear and sizable deterioration across a variety of different EA metrics.
I included your comment about 80k’s metrics being largely unaffected, but if there’s some updated data on if/how 80k’s metrics have changed post-FTX that would be very interesting to see.
Other data points on community growth per CEA’s dashboard:
Traffic for the intro page on effectivealtruism.org is at the lowest level since the data starts in April 2017, and has been falling steadily since FTX.
The EA newsletter has been losing subscribers steadily since FTX (i.e. people are unsubscribing faster than new people have started subscribing)