133,041 hours of engagement on the Forum, including 60,507 hours of engagement with non-Community posts
I can only imagine how bad this ratio was before the redesign if it’s still worse than 1:1 ; if anything I think this suggests community content should be even further deprioritized.
Thanks for the suggestion! This comment from Lizka contains substantial discussion of community versus noncommunity; for convenience, I will reproduce one of the major graphs here:
You can see that there was a major spike around the FTX collapse, and another around the TIME and Bostrom articles, which might make the “average” unintuitive, since it’s heavily determined by tail events.
To chime in with a quick data note: “hours of engagement on the Forum” also includes time spent not viewing posts (e.g. time spent viewing events, local groups, and other non-post content on the Forum), so comparing those two numbers will give you a slightly misleading picture of the Community v. non-Community engagement breakdown.
The Forum saw a total of 39,965 hours of engagement with Community posts up until the end of Q2 in 2023, so the actual ratio between Community:non-Community post engagement is more like 2:3. I’ll edit the top level post to make this clear (thanks for the nudge).
I can only imagine how bad this ratio was before the redesign if it’s still worse than 1:1
FYI, the dashboard we published has this metric broken out over time, so you don’t have to imagine this! :) (I don’t work on the Online team, but I built this dashboard.)
I can only imagine how bad this ratio was before the redesign if it’s still worse than 1:1 ; if anything I think this suggests community content should be even further deprioritized.
Thanks for the suggestion! This comment from Lizka contains substantial discussion of community versus noncommunity; for convenience, I will reproduce one of the major graphs here:
You can see that there was a major spike around the FTX collapse, and another around the TIME and Bostrom articles, which might make the “average” unintuitive, since it’s heavily determined by tail events.
Thanks for engaging with this!
To chime in with a quick data note: “hours of engagement on the Forum” also includes time spent not viewing posts (e.g. time spent viewing events, local groups, and other non-post content on the Forum), so comparing those two numbers will give you a slightly misleading picture of the Community v. non-Community engagement breakdown.
The Forum saw a total of 39,965 hours of engagement with Community posts up until the end of Q2 in 2023, so the actual ratio between Community:non-Community post engagement is more like 2:3. I’ll edit the top level post to make this clear (thanks for the nudge).
FYI, the dashboard we published has this metric broken out over time, so you don’t have to imagine this! :) (I don’t work on the Online team, but I built this dashboard.)
Thanks for this explanation!