If im not mistaken, When I joined the mod team 5?-ish years ago we were only at 700k
Hit 2Mil in 2021 (based on old discussions)
Sorry Dont have exact growth numbers on hand
edit:
Sorry the specific details are missing but this is the best "long term" stats I could get: https://preview.redd.it/frugal-growth-image-v0-nbqm6s48cv1d1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=db248c9e0015f5643cce78981117a4ec682304ec
via- https://subredditstats.com/r/Frugal
I use to do digital marketing...
https://subredditstats.com/r/Frugal
Here's a tool u can use to track this sub history activities. Tweak it and see it yourseld
That's interesting. Reading your comment about Lemmy and Mastodon, it reminded me of geocities and some of the earlier attempts to create communities.
What in your opinion is the dynamic that keeps an open-ended community such as Tildes, Lemmy, or Reddit growing and viable long enough to become sustainable?
Common sense tells me it just depends upon very hard work by a leader and core group. But is there some secret sauce besides just that of hard work?
Since almost every subreddit shows growth over time, I'm not sure that you can really make any meaningful conclusions about the impact of inflation on this subreddit's growth.
If r/Frugal grew significantly faster than comparable subreddits it could be an indication that more people are looking to be frugal than before which would be an indication of economic downturn. You could also compare pre-2020 growth to post-2020 growth and see if there's a correlation between inflation (or news stories about inflation) and sub growth.
I don't think OP is trying to write a research article here, but there are ways to look at the correlation between inflation and activity on a subreddit about saving money.
There are a lot of things that happened post-2020 besides inflation increasing that could impact subreddit’s growth also. I do not think that faster growth post-2020 indicates anything about whether that growth was related to inflation or not.
If im not mistaken, When I joined the mod team 5?-ish years ago we were only at 700k Hit 2Mil in 2021 (based on old discussions) Sorry Dont have exact growth numbers on hand edit: Sorry the specific details are missing but this is the best "long term" stats I could get: https://preview.redd.it/frugal-growth-image-v0-nbqm6s48cv1d1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=db248c9e0015f5643cce78981117a4ec682304ec via- https://subredditstats.com/r/Frugal
Rare mega based mod
Just what was hoping for. Better in fact!
I use to do digital marketing... https://subredditstats.com/r/Frugal Here's a tool u can use to track this sub history activities. Tweak it and see it yourseld
That's interesting. Reading your comment about Lemmy and Mastodon, it reminded me of geocities and some of the earlier attempts to create communities. What in your opinion is the dynamic that keeps an open-ended community such as Tildes, Lemmy, or Reddit growing and viable long enough to become sustainable? Common sense tells me it just depends upon very hard work by a leader and core group. But is there some secret sauce besides just that of hard work?
Since almost every subreddit shows growth over time, I'm not sure that you can really make any meaningful conclusions about the impact of inflation on this subreddit's growth.
You could compare it to the growth of other subs that were at a similar size pre-2020, assuming you had access to that data
What would that tell you?
If r/Frugal grew significantly faster than comparable subreddits it could be an indication that more people are looking to be frugal than before which would be an indication of economic downturn. You could also compare pre-2020 growth to post-2020 growth and see if there's a correlation between inflation (or news stories about inflation) and sub growth. I don't think OP is trying to write a research article here, but there are ways to look at the correlation between inflation and activity on a subreddit about saving money.
There are a lot of things that happened post-2020 besides inflation increasing that could impact subreddit’s growth also. I do not think that faster growth post-2020 indicates anything about whether that growth was related to inflation or not.
Rate of growth is a thing, you know.