A (Semi) Statistical Recap of Coral

Photo credit should read FRED BROUSER/AFP via Getty ImagesEver since Coral was first announced way back in 2020, the fine folks at RCT had been dreading its arrival. Would it cause people to leave the site? Would internet friendships be ruined? Surely it will hurt comment counts, right?

Before the implementation of Coral I made a spreadsheet of comment counts on the Daily Mauling for the last 2 years. I daydreamed that Vox would be so impressed by my pretty line graphs they would promote me to CEO of the company. Unfortunately, the search function on SBNation is a little rough so I collected what I could. For instance I could only find 15 Daily Mauling articles for June of 2021 and 11 for…