Just to clarify my understanding. In the first table, when you say "unique posts" but generalize within the article as "unique users", is it safe to assume that what you did was find the unique posting names and attribute a count of 1 each if they made at least one or more posts in the month?

What I mean is, if you and I were the only two human users, but we made 40 unique posts combined all month long, then you waded through the blocks, found all the posts made in the month total, and then only counted the two actually unique names on them to make these numbers?

So 7,065 is not "unique posts" but rather, "unique posters"? Correct?

Just making sure I understand correctly.

Because coming back after my long sabbatical, I can definitely feel the pulse is much slower than it was when we had double or triple these numbers on the daily a few years ago. And these estimates feel about right based on the amount of fresh content I see as I dig around getting back into things, and the reduced traffic in all the associated discords I visit, once bustling little cities, many, while still alive and in use, seem far more subdued than "once upon a time".

So I was certainly wondering myself, what these numbers looked like, and if some of the ideas I have for upcoming projects have an audience here big enough to even sustain them, make them worthwhile or warrant the effort, time and costs making them would take.

Not that a "small" ecosystem would preclude me from making things, but some of the things I have in mind to create, would not on their own, particularly be an attraction to incentivize brand new people to come and make brand new accounts for themselves, but rather, would mostly extend some new capabilities for users already on the platform.

And having a good estimate of the population like you are striving for here, right on time to match my own musings about such things, would temper my expectations of the speed of my idea's adoption and growth and utility to the community that has chosen to stick around here so far.

Thanks for doing this either way. I'm just mostly wanting to make sure what I'm seeing is unique users and not unique posts as labelled, since those would be some severely disappointing numbers if its actually unique posts.

Thanks Marky.