And that's what's amazing, and shows what a different time the internet was in the 90s.
Quality content generates its own organic growth, and organic growth is generally much more sustainable than forced / purchased / out-of-context-marketed growth. If you need to make money from it, you're doing 'old-sk00l internet' wrong.
Many people today seem to think that the only way to build a website is to build something that will dynamically scale to 100 million users and remain online even in the case of nuclear war.
Tech people's attitudes have changed a lot since then. Large institutions aren't run by one or two techies in the basement.
Sites can still graph all participants but probably not for long: https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/