Timeline for Diminished activity during pandemic?
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| Apr 21, 2020 at 7:06 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | A recent blog posts (on The Overflow Blog) related to this topic: How the pandemic changed traffic trends from 400M visitors across 172 Stack Exchange sites | |
| Apr 17, 2020 at 15:44 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I am not sure to which extent they are interesting (and whether they add something to the stats seen in the site analytics), but anyway - some statistics related to activity on MO are collected in MathOverflow chatroom. | |
| Apr 17, 2020 at 15:42 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Maybe get a new graph, showing activity up to now. Has "diminished activity" continued? | |
| Apr 11, 2020 at 14:03 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I think many points above are well made. Without wishing to sound like I am gloating, in my case there is a certain element of in the past using MathOverflow as providing moments of respite from the day job, as a substitute for sitting and thinking properly about research since the day job wasn't giving me enough peace to do this. The pandemic means I am actually left alone to think about research, hence less MO from me. (Yes, my day job does officially claim I get 35%-40% of my time to do research. Those of you not in the UK should think of this as that famous "British humour") | |
| Apr 11, 2020 at 9:16 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
The (statistics) tag seem reasonable to me; but feel free to remove it if you do not think it's a good fit for the question
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| Apr 10, 2020 at 15:55 | comment | added | user6976 | @BenCrowell: That is my impression too for mathoverflow. | |
| Apr 9, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | user21349 | Matheducators.SE has seen a large number of low-quality questions recently. I think a lot of people are sitting at home trying to learn math, so they hit an SE site on their phone and decide to ask a question, without understanding what's really the purpose of the site. | |
| Apr 3, 2020 at 17:29 | comment | added | Kimball | I have mixed expectations too. I can imagine that the pandemic lowers people's motivation to do many things they usually do, including MO. And if people use MO to "take a break" maybe there's less they need to take a break from now. I personally am actively limiting my time on things like SE, news sites, etc... so that I can productively work from home, though I have no idea how common this is. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 17:29 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | My own participation was heaviest when I was working from home in the year after MO started. Actually, MO helped make that arrangement work for me! But now I have kids at home and less time. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 15:36 | comment | added | Matthew Daws | I echo Martin Sleziak and Joseph O'Rourke, but also add that those of use with caring responsibilities (e.g. I have junior school-age children) suddenly find ourselves doing a job and (in my and my wife's case) being teacher. There is also the stress of worrying about friends and family we cannot visit. This does add up to much less capacity for serious Mathematics, at least in my experience. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 12:19 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @EmilJeřábek: For many the pandemic has resulted in less free time rather than more. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 5:59 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @EmilJeřábek I have mixed expectations. Yes, more people stay at home, but some of them have to adapt to working from home using online tools. On MO, we can expect many people from academia - for people who do not have experience with that, starting with distance teaching is not easy and they might be putting a lot of time into that. And we should also consider other factors: 1. Some people might not have access to internet at home. 2. Some people might be forced by external factors to do other stuff. (Especially if they volunteer to help with some aspects of crisis. But also ordinary people.) | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 14:45 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | I’m confused. Maybe it’s different in other parts of the world, but where I live, the main practical effects of the pandemic are that people are forced to stay at home, and shops, pubs, etc. are closed. If anything, I’d expect this to increase participation in all kinds of online fora, including MO. | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 12:37 | comment | added | Peter McNamara | What counts as a "new visit"? | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 9:06 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Looking at the [publicly available] analytics on math.SE, comparing the activity since 1 March, to the same period 6 and 12 months ago, it doesn't look that different. | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 6:59 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I will mention my post on Meta Stack Exchange: What are reasonable ways to check if activity on a site (or the whole network) has decreased? Some suggestions were given in comments. I will add links to some discussion in MathOverflow chatroom and in my chatroom where some stats about activity were mentioned (for MO and math.SE]). | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 6:52 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Perhaps (statistics) would be a good tag for this post - it can be interpreted about question about stats concerning traffic on various sites. | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 1:18 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @GerhardPaseman: "Having Challenges Thinking About Math"---Amen! Although most of us are still teaching math (but I know you meant math research). | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Some of us are still reeling from the ... uh, drama from last September (and before and after). I would be interested in that effect on participation in MathOverflow. Gerhard "Having Challenges Thinking About Math" Paseman, 2020.03.28. | |
| Mar 29, 2020 at 0:40 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |