Dusk Eagle posted some stats on how often people post on L19. It does look like there's a downward trend, but the lesson I'd draw is that you can make very weak inferences about the wider Go world based on traffic here. A full 25% of posts on L19 come from 10 posters. If a single heavy poster leaves, (*cough* Topazg *cough*) that is already a noticeable hit to how active the forums are. You have 136 people who have posted 100 times (roughly equal to once every 4 days). That's a tiny number compared to the active go players in the West. So while there's no harm in citing the activity on L19 alongside other pieces of evidence, it's not so significant by itself.

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