Re^5: Terminal decline?

in reply to Re^4: Terminal decline?
in thread Terminal decline?

FWIW, here are my highest reputation nodes of the year (2002-2015) (update: 2nd rep is as at 1-1-2018, as are entries for 2016 and 2017; 3rd rep is as at 15-05-2021):

2004 (337, 344, 349): Saturn
2005 (228, 230, 232): The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part IV): Golf
2006 (193, 198, 200): On Interfaces and APIs
2002 (179, 180, 182): Somersaulting camel
2007 (151, 154, 155): Dueling Flamingos: The Story of the Fonality Christmas Golf Challenge
2008 (146, 147, 147): Unix shell versus Perl
2009 (127, 128, 134): On Coding Standards and Code Reviews
2014 (90, 97, 100): The First Ten Perl Monks
2010 (87, 88, 90): Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part I): Meta Process
2011 (86, 87, 88): Common Software Development Mistakes
2012 (77, 77, 78): The History of Acme::Bleach and Acme::EyeDrops
2015 (55, 58, 61): The Boy Scout Rule
2003 (56, 56, 56): Turning a script into a module
2017 ( 54, 54): High Performance Game of Life
2013 (50, 53, 53): Re: Old Monks go gentle into that good night.
2018 ( 46): Re: Splitting program into modules
2016 ( 45, 45): Re^2: Do subroutine variables get destroyed? (Deterministic Destructor References)
2019 ( 45): Re: Criteria for when to use a cpan module (Buy vs Build)
2021 ( 40): Re: Perl Contempt in My Workplace
2020 ( 31): Re^3: looping efficiency (Benchmark Example)

Though I have 26 centurion nodes, I've been unable to break the 100 barrier since 19-Feb-2009 (though The First Ten Perl Monks has a chance to get there eventually ... update: and did get there on Nov 20 2019).

I speculate without proof that we lost quite a few users (e.g. brian d foy) after the "hacked catastrophe of 2009".