Whew...look at all those visitors we got:

There may be a slight glitch in the stats

@Andy I think it's all of our new advertising! It's working! :D

@MonicaCellio RE this comment-- they should be interpreted in the context of their sites, but only if it is a common term in that field (unless it's a special tag created for a special purpose).

I'm saying that user retention != retention; it's really no different that job-search on The Workplace.

Having only search would mostly be associated with a job search (minus search engines), but a job search doesn't come to mind unless it was Jobs Stack Exchange. Having only retention would mostly be associated with user retention (minus similar things like data retention: e.g. a question about if data should be kept when a user is deleted), but user retention doesn't come to mind unless it was Users Stack Exchange.

@Andy ^^^

@AnnonomusPenguin that must be it!

@AnnonomusPenguin I think retention in the sense of membership retention -- keeping people participating in a community -- is a not-uncommon term, but we can defer this one. My congregation, for example, talks about retention. (I'm on the board; I hear lots of behind-the-scenes stuff. This seems to be a normative term in that context.)

@Andy oh look, Worldbuilding is exactly as popular as we are! What a coincidence!

@MonicaCellio maybe some dev somehow accidentally added up entire network traffic :)

@AnnonomusPenguin it reminds me of a quote I heard long ago (can't find, can't remember a source), something like: from a cosmic perspective, the Solar System consists of the sun, Jupiter, and assorted debris. Similarly, Stack Exchange consists of SO, Server Fault, Super User, and background noise. :-)

haha

Everything revolves around Stack Overflow

And then in the very distance is Careers, which isn't considered a community although it resembles a non-SE community.