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      8 months ago

      If you start the plot at 0, you can distinguish between a strong trend, a weak trend and a lack of a trend. This one is terrible for gauging that.

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              8 months ago

              If you start at 0, you see exactly what you’re supposed to: there is a rather negligible trend in the given timeframe.

              That’s the point. The number of users has very slightly declined in the past few months. Under the original plot, you have a lot of people (rightly) misinterpreting the data, and saying that a lot of users are leaving the site.

              That’s why you start at 0. So that people interpret the data correctly.