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Fandom Stats displays AO3 data with graphs. It's nothing you can't see in a search result sidebar but the graphs are fun.

(For those going 'Hey, Sean, weren't you going to get into fandom stats?": I got one lecture into a stats course and it was all too hard and I did something else instead >.>)

I argued with someone on tumblr who said the quantity of fanfic produced has starkly decreased since 2009, but while I was sure they were wrong I couldn't back myself up with hard evidence. Luckily their main argument was "these days there's nothing as active as Stargate Atlantis fandom used to be", which was pretty easy to refute.

Beyond that specific conversation, I'm wondering if there's been any studies of fanfic/fanwork volume over time, or if there's any way to estimate even a rough ballpark. It would be interesting to even just see changes within a specific community over time, eg Jane Austen fandom after various adaptations. Or comparing numbers within different archives, like fanfiction.net vs AO3. But the AO3 is the only archive I've come across which makes it easy to look back on past numbers for that sort of thing, and it's too young and unevenly popular to be a reliable sample.
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