- Two [of analyzed] lists -- textbook-l and wikija-l -- show
*increase* of traffic! It would be good to analyze why it is so. Maybe they have the answer to our problem: increasing of list traffic usually means that community is increasing. (Or they are just in the earlier phase, which means that they will show decrease of traffic during the next year or two.)
I would suggest that textbook-l traffic is up because we have had several announcements lately, such as getting the Collection extension enabled last week. In fact, the most voluminous threads over the past 6 months have been on the subject of PDF generation, with one exception (a licensing issue). I'm not sure what conclusions can be drawn from that additional information, but I think the low level of traffic overall is probably relevant to an accurate determination in that case.
-Mike