[Foundation-l] Fwd: A lack of newbies that stick

[Bence Damokos]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Certainly someone else can do more formal research and come up with
> actual numbers. But as for me I think it's ridiculous at worst and
> premature at best to say that new users are becoming less sticky when,
> it seems to me, they have in fact never been particularly sticky.
>
> The study examined those people who have registered and made at least one
edit, and the ratio of the people who stuck on after their first edit has
gone down, which is the basis of concern.

(There are and have always been many more people who have registered but
never got to edit, and many who never registered but still edited, it would
be interesting to see if there is any change in proportion over time.)

Best regards,
Bence