Above we see the number of new people arriving on One Post Wonder each week, back to the beginning.

These numbers are really too small to be significant at a weekly scale; after all, there are still only 128 accounts on OPW. (*)

So it's important not to get caught up in week-to-week fluctuations. I would have done a monthly graph but we just haven't had enough months yet.

But looking at the overall trend... wow. There's quite a pickup between the first and second halves of the graph.

Also, while I only recently started tracking "who invited who" information, I can tell you that everyone invited in that big bump last week was not invited by me!

I think this chart is even more interesting:

In the long run, content is what matters. And we're seeing impressive growth in the number of posts each week. I'm also seeing more signs of spontaneous connection between folks in my personal OPW experience.

Speaking of connection, what about comments?

Zoom!

Re: the last two weeks, for a while my personal, subjective impression was that folks preferred commenting to posting. But last week, that pattern reversed, with a significantly lower ratio of comments to posts.

As I mentioned, the data is noisy and will remain that way until the site is quite a bit bigger. But it's easy to see the signs of growth in these graphs. Not just growth in population, but growth in content and growth in connection.

(*) Yep, it's that small so far. It's easy to be surprised by this number if you've been participating, because the community is strong. Slow growth doesn't bother me; as long as we are showing signs of organic growth, we are doing the right things, and the community will grow with time.