Scratch

Main reasons this happens:

1.  Other things happening in life, or not enough time.
2.  People suddenly realize that it actually takes work to become famous and leave becuase they are lazy.
3.  People fail to realize this and quit in frustration ("Why am I not famous?")
4.  An attempt to get people to view a project by putting "I Quit", "Goodbye", or something like that in the title.  Yes, people actually do this.   

There's probably some others too.

henley wrote:

Every week, you see one “Goodbye” project.

Let’s say that that is three “goodbye” projects in a month.

Taken from the last five months, the average new users per month is 23,600.

Abiding by your logic, this means that if three people leave every month, twenty-three thousand six-hundred people replace those people.

So it’s like we are gaining 23,597 people a month if three go away.

I don’t think its a problem.

Even if it isn’t actually three people that leave every month, I’m sure that twenty-three thousand six-hundred people don’t leave.

Too many scratchers quit.

sportsdude6 wrote:

Too many scratchers quit.

henley wrote:

Every week, you see one “Goodbye” project.

Let’s say that that is three “goodbye” projects in a month.

Taken from the last five months, the average new users per month is 23,600.

Abiding by your logic, this means that if three people leave every month, twenty-three thousand six-hundred people replace those people.

So it’s like we are gaining 23,597 people a month if three go away.

I don’t think its a problem.

5 people quitting on top viewed recently. 

Maybe some of the "I Quit" projects are from people who are 'new scratchers' that want to truthfully become scratchers, but the site won't let them.

(I feel that way, except I am not going to quit because I won't become a scratcher if I quit, I'll just be a sad new scratcher     )

Here are some example reason's why some people leave:
1. They have outgrown Scratch and want's to move on to something else
2. They got new animation software
3. Fed up of being bullied/trolled
4. they didn't like it here
5. They were fed up of being a new scratcher
6. They got bored of scratch
7. Not "famous"
8. Scratch is too hard
9. Scratch is too easy
10. They just want to

But you can't stay on scratch forever. However some of these "i'm quiting" or "goodbye" or whatever are because they just want more views and more attention and to get people to feel sorry for them. But most are because they mean it.

It's their decision; we might not want them to leave but there's nothing we can do, as it's up to the user to decide when they've had enough.

henley wrote:

Every week, you see one “Goodbye” project.

Let’s say that that is three “goodbye” projects in a month.

Taken from the last five months, the average new users per month is 23,600.

Abiding by your logic, this means that if three people leave every month, twenty-three thousand six-hundred people replace those people.

So it’s like we are gaining 23,597 people a month if three go away.

I don’t think its a problem.

but there are also the indeterminate amount of people who leave without making a fancy goodbye project

probably not, but i think more than 3 people leave scratch per month

Half the time its just a popularity stunt, otherwise its leaving because they aren't famous or want to move on to a new programming language.

schusteralex2 wrote:

henley wrote:

Every week, you see one “Goodbye” project.

Let’s say that that is three “goodbye” projects in a month.

Taken from the last five months, the average new users per month is 23,600.

Abiding by your logic, this means that if three people leave every month, twenty-three thousand six-hundred people replace those people.

So it’s like we are gaining 23,597 people a month if three go away.

I don’t think its a problem.

but there are also the indeterminate amount of people who leave without making a fancy goodbye project

And you think that number is over 23,600?