Thanks, very informative, steem on!

Steemit just seems to be holding steady at the moment. It's still a pretty small site really, but at some point it should go viral. I wonder if the team are waiting to complete the re-branding before they do a big publicity push. They could buy some ads with all the Steem they have. Really it needs some big names to come on board and spread the word. I'd like to see more artists and musicians here.

this is sophistry.  Undoubtedly sophistry that will be elevated to the top of trending, but sophistry nontheless.

Obviously, if you start at 0 views when the site first opened, the linear projection is going to always be positive.  Its literally impossible for it to project downward.  There would have to be negative people looking at the site... not like negative they have a bad attitude, but negative like they're a family of -4 who loaded up the site one day.

If i started a graph on the day they manufactured the first commodore 64, then projected a line for C64 ownership from then until the present, it would look like c64 ownership was trending upwards... because no matter how many people throw out their commodore 64s (unless its all of them), there will always be more who own them than there were on the day before they were first manufactured.

Yes, we have more people looking at the site now than we did before the site existed.  That basically goes without saying (except i guess it doesnt).

Project the numbers forward from any time after the site went public (early july, iiuc) and they will tell a vastly different story.

Edit to add -- its hilarious that you include the 0 to -10000 views cohort on your graphs to make it look like it would be possible for them to trend downwards.

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Thank you for the explanation.  This makes a whole lot of sense to me.  There would be no way any of us would stay if we were not committed to the platform and believed in this system.

Damn those volatile United Staters!  

Thanks for the graphs ^_^

We are stable, which means that the number of people leaving are equivalent to the number of people joining. If it stays like this for too long, we end up with many more lapsed users than continuing, satisfied users. That would be a bad place to be in.

I also notice that when I zoom in on the graph, it seems the divergence between the blue and red lines began a week or two *before* dollarvigilante joined Steemit (4th August). Which would be shortly after the introduction of the new password policy (21st July).

I like your clarification posts! Thanks!

It seems fine but it's clear we are not really growing at the moment.

Nice work

Americans are spoiled.

Nice post, thanks.
those spreading FUD = wanting to buy cheap
 (or having unrealistic expectations)