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”
You’re right that the user count is inflated via tabs but we have more upvotes on comments and posts in the last 2 weeks than we did the previous 2 weeks from that. Posts: 250k vs 219k Comments: 755k vs 645k
14 days into Oct compared to 14 days into Sept Posts: 256k vs 155k Comments: 760k vs 423k
Similarly for pure post/comment count: Comments: 72k vs 42k Posts: 6.2k vs 5.2k
