In the beginning it makes sense that there would be a lot of turnover. We had the discord drama stuff so a lot of alts were likely created then, which pumped the user numbers. Then there was growth of new users as word of the site spread. I don't have data to back it up but I assume regulars do have alts, or should, because of what we went through with doxxing users in the past. I agree that new users are balancing out people who leave, I don't think that the balance is caused by the same users creating lots of alts.
That's why I'd like to see how the user count changed along with the change in current users, to see how those correlate. If the current users was steady around 1300 but there was a sudden spike in new accounts, that means either a lot of people left and we got a sudden influx of new people. Or it means people rotated their accounts to avoid doxxing. I'd like to see the effect of ban waves too.
It is unlikely that the roughly constant safe baseline of users is from the same users.
It's more likely that user churn occurs and that new users is simply keeping up with the user churn. There is no community without user churn.
In the beginning it makes sense that there would be a lot of turnover. We had the discord drama stuff so a lot of alts were likely created then, which pumped the user numbers. Then there was growth of new users as word of the site spread. I don't have data to back it up but I assume regulars do have alts, or should, because of what we went through with doxxing users in the past. I agree that new users are balancing out people who leave, I don't think that the balance is caused by the same users creating lots of alts.
That's why I'd like to see how the user count changed along with the change in current users, to see how those correlate. If the current users was steady around 1300 but there was a sudden spike in new accounts, that means either a lot of people left and we got a sudden influx of new people. Or it means people rotated their accounts to avoid doxxing. I'd like to see the effect of ban waves too.