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.
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.