Has the forum been less active the past few days, or is it just me?

[Virginiá]

See title.

The past couple days have been really active, posts-wise:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=stats;expand=201809#201809

The Trump era has made Atlas much more active, but activity really spiked in December 2017 and hasn't let up since. This month will probably be another 53,000+ post/month.

More to your question - the past few days have been really active as well. Yesterday was just shy of 1,900 posts, which is a lot, and today might hit around 1,750 - 1,800.

[Virginiá]

It may just be on other boards too. For example, polling is picking up, so that is naturally going to drive up activity on poll-related boards.

[Virginiá]

@NOVA - Very ambitious!

Unfortunately the "views" counter for each thread/board is just a simple integer representing the count. There is also a setting that logs individual views too that might be enabled, but I don't think it logs Guest views. That would result in a lot of data.

It's pretty interesting to look at data like that, and how the amount of posts fluctuates. How come there's so many more predictions in 2004 and 2008 compared to more recent elections like 2016 and 2018?

Who knows! Maybe it was a bigger thing back then, and the thread was probably stickied too.