>>34755081Thread lifespan is not even a metric that is tracked by 4stats or any of the major archives, which is why I'm focusing on post rate. If you want to believe that this untracked statistic on a couple of boards is somehow definitive proof that 4chan is reclining then I don't know what to tell you. I will throw you a bone here and point out that 4plebs is the only archive I've seen that has an actual board population statistic tracked for the boards that it archives. You can cherrypick a couple of semi-fast boards like /tg/ or /o/ that have declined since 2013 and 2014. But take one look at the scale for those boards and compare those losses to the gains from the big boy boards like /tv/ and /pol/ and they look like a rounding error.
