Re: [VOTE] Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net

Thank you Jim for the best written no-brainer RFC for years! On Tue, 19 May 2026, 15:55 Matthew Brown, <matthewmatthew@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On May 19, 2026, at 6:25 am, Roman Pronskiy <roman@pronskiy.com> wrote: > > > > Another data point: we have actual analytics on what platforms drive > > engagement to php.net. For April 2026: > > > > | Social Network | Visits | Share | > > |----------------|-------:|-------:| > > | YouTube | 5,373 | 33.66% | > > | Reddit | 2,915 | 18.26% | > > | X/Twitter | 2,102 | 13.17% | > > | StackOverflow | 2,068 | 12.96% | > > | Facebook | 2,048 | 12.83% | > > | LinkedIn | 675 | 4.23% | > > | Telegram | 205 | 1.28% | > > | Hacker News | 166 | 1.04% | > > | Vkontakte | 154 | 0.96% | > > | Sourceforge | 98 | 0.61% | > > | Instagram | 58 | 0.36% | > > | Mastodon | 37 | 0.23% | > > | Workplace | 16 | 0.10% | > > | V2EX | 15 | 0.09% | > > | Bluesky | 14 | 0.09% | > > | Threads | 12 | 0.08% | > > > > Among text-based platforms suitable for project communications, X > > drives more traffic than LinkedIn and Mastodon combined. An active > > account would expand reach. > > > > That's the kind of analysis the policy RFC encourages producing going > > forward: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/social-media-policy > > > > -Roman > > Thanks for the stats! > > An average of 70 visits a day from X doesn’t seem like a ton of engagement > though? I’m reasonably sure that figures from 2021 would be much much > larger. > > I believe that the era of town-square text social networks is over. There > is no longer a single place where I can follow friends, colleagues, experts > and funny people all in one place. Some of the exodus was a reaction to the > Twitter acquisition, but a lot of it was just a general exhaustion from the > dynamics that emerge from such systems. > > X still has influence in Silicon Valley due to the large number of tech > execs, AI companies and researchers, who continue to post there — but I > don’t think there’s much overlap in audience. > > Matt