Just sort by top of the month, all our top posts range from 1 week to 1 month old, with very few being from the past few days of record “online” numbers.
Anyone who knows how Reddit communities work in the same sense know that when community member numbers go up along with concurrent online users, the post vote counts go up proportionally.
It doesn’t seem to make sense that with nearly 1900 users online at once the top post of the day has 214 points while posts from many weeks ago were getting more.
Did we change how “online user” is determined or is there a glitch?
edit:
Tested what people were saying about how “online users” is really just “open tabs”
No I think it was accurate up until last week, when the code was changed. To quote Awoo
It’s clearly just a change in the backend caused by ongoing development that occurred on the 7th.
The code was this way since before we even started chapo.chat, so not really no. Lemmy counts websockets and the front-end opens one websocket per tab as it comes, and I even think someone noticed this on the first time we fired up the dev server.
My theory has always been that we got a lot of traffic from the low-engagement lurkers we lost with the sub ban who re-discovered the new chapo via the watermarked memes a comrade is spreading around on reddit or where ever. People who don’t post and might not even make an account, but just browse/consume.
I’d have to do some analysis, and I don’t have access to the prod server, but if I had to guess I’d say a combination of new users as well as the debates causing everyone to open a tab for the thread. Or maybe something else, but the issue for the online count being by tab was there from the get-go.
