<nettime> The effect of "Nettime is in bad shape" on user agent ratios

[Douglas Bagnall <douglas@halo.gen.nz>]

This year, up until the seventh of June, Nettime had contributions
from email clients in the following proportions:

|###################################   35.1% Gmail
|#################                17.2% Apple Mail
|##########                        9.9% Thunderbird (Linux)
|######                            5.6% Unknown
|######                            5.8% Thunderbird (Macintosh)
|########                          8.2% XS4all Webmail
|####                              4.1% Qualcomm Windows Eudora
|###                               3.4% Mailmate
|##                                2.2% Mutt
|###                               2.6% Iphone Mail
|                                  0.4% MS/Outlook.com/Hotmail
|#                                 1.1% Neomutt
|                                  0.4% Cyrus webmail
|#                                 0.6% Jaro Mail
|                                  0.4% Trojita
|                                  0.4% K Mail For Android
|                                  0.4% Alpine
|#                                 0.6% yahoo/aol
|#                                 0.6% Microsoft Outlook
|                                  0.0% Thunderbird (Windows)
|                                  0.2% Mycom Mailer
|                                  0.0% Claws Mail
|                                  0.2% Ipad Mail
|                                  0.2% Webmail
|                                  0.0% Evolution
|                                  0.0% Mew (Emacs)

After (and including) the "Nettime is in bad shape" message, until
(but not including) the "Penalty Shoot Outs" thread, we saw the
following ratios:

|##################################   34.1% Gmail
|#########                         8.5% Apple Mail
|###########                      11.4% Thunderbird (Linux)
|###############                  15.3% Unknown
|#######                           7.4% Thunderbird (Macintosh)
|                                  0.0% XS4all Webmail
|###                               2.8% Qualcomm Windows Eudora
|                                  0.0% Mailmate
|###                               2.8% Mutt
|##                                1.7% Iphone Mail
|###                               2.8% MS/Outlook.com/Hotmail
|###                               3.4% Neomutt
|##                                2.3% Cyrus webmail
|#                                 0.6% Jaro Mail
|#                                 1.1% Trojita
|#                                 1.1% K Mail For Android
|#                                 1.1% Alpine
|                                  0.0% yahoo/aol
|                                  0.0% Microsoft Outlook
|##                                1.7% Thunderbird (Windows)
|#                                 0.6% Mycom Mailer
|#                                 0.6% Claws Mail
|                                  0.0% Ipad Mail
|                                  0.0% Webmail
|#                                 0.6% Evolution
|                                  0.0% Mew (Emacs)

Apple Mail usage halved, Mutt/Neomutt usage doubled. There are nice
contributions from Claws, Evolution, Alpine, Trojita. XS4All Webmail
vanishes completely. Thunderbird tops 20% across platforms. The
identified agents form a fat tail of diversity, while 15% are
unrecognisable.

With the "Penalty Shoot Outs" thread, Nettime seemed to abandon the
experiment. Do the user agent ratios revert to early-2019 form?

|############################     27.8% Gmail
|######################           22.2% Apple Mail
|########                          8.3% Thunderbird (Linux)
|###                               2.8% Unknown
|########                          8.3% Thunderbird (Macintosh)
|                                  0.0% XS4all Webmail
|###                               2.8% Qualcomm Windows Eudora
|                                  0.0% Mailmate
|###                               2.8% Mutt
|                                  0.0% Iphone Mail
|##############                   13.9% MS/Outlook.com/Hotmail
|                                  0.0% Neomutt
|###                               2.8% Cyrus webmail
|                                  0.0% Jaro Mail
|                                  0.0% Trojita
|                                  0.0% K Mail For Android
|                                  0.0% Alpine
|###                               2.8% yahoo/aol
|                                  0.0% Microsoft Outlook
|                                  0.0% Thunderbird (Windows)
|                                  0.0% Mycom Mailer
|###                               2.8% Claws Mail
|                                  0.0% Ipad Mail
|                                  0.0% Webmail
|                                  0.0% Evolution
|###                               2.8% Mew (Emacs)

Sort of. The data is thin, of course. Apple Mail is back. Outlook.com
surges on a series of posts from an institutional account. The flurry
of Mutt and Pine users is petering out. It is nice to see Emacs there.

I don't have *much* to say about the significance of this. It is just
something I noticed, and (as tends to be the way) the effect seems
weaker once the data is gathered. But it is interesting that a call
for new voices flushes out a whole pile of Mutt users. I would say
that a Nettime [de-]lurker is not going to rescue anyone from 90s
techno-nostalgia, but that might evoke furious defences of all kinds
of software of which I am actually quite fond. What should seem weird
is that one third of us are using Gmail.

Douglas
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