User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-2163805-20181006204249/@comment-20644-20181007160225

To be fair, the number of editors is actually steadily increasing, as is the number of edits.



The biggest driver of the downturn throughout 2016 was an increase in advertisements, which harmed page performance. In 2017 is when we launched Modernization with the goal of reducing the number of ads. Once the ads were reduced and page performance increased significantly, the trend in editors went upward.

There will always be people leaving, that's the natural lifecycle, but the overall number is going up in the era of FANDOM.