SilverWook wrote: Is that indicative of it's peak and decline?
For quick and dirty gives a sense of what was going on. When you have a whole site and there are two posts a day (for a year), can understand the reason to halt new information being added, but taking it offline completely is not helpful to research and the concept of the internet as a public library.
One trooper who wrote a joke a day. Over 1,400+ entries.
Refining the numbers to just posts created in that year: and comparing that to total yearly activity (blog posts + blog posts with comments of that year) = % of new blog posts over total activity.
2005 - 7,470 (2005 - 13,755) : 54%
2006 - 24,132 (2006 - 38,956) : 62%
2007 - 5,826 (2007 - 8,088) : 72%
2008 - 2,751 (2008 - 3,991) : 68%
2009 - 1,393 (2009 - 2,118) : 65%
2010 - 1,363 (2010 - 2,036) : 66%
2011 - 429 (2011 - 689) : 62%
2012 - 84 (2012 - 155) : 54%