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”
I imagine a few things are happening:
- “online users” algorithm changed
- more people online with no account
- enthusiasm for the site has dampened somewhat, so people aren’t just upvoting everything in the same way
but the most likely is simply:
- more users = more libs = worse posts :)
Yeah maybe an extension of how long ago a person had to have visited the site to count as “online”.
For Reddit I think it’s around 20–30 minutes, for here they may have extended it to hours or the day.
Do we know if this site even counts non-account visits as online users? That wouldn’t make sense to me.
It would be nice to have a public traffic page like Reddit has for their mods, I’d love to see the site growing over time. Would be encouraging.
i agree, it sure feels like the online user count isn’t right.
I’m still waiting for a person that runs 100s of tabs to confess to their bit.
Counting separate tabs as users would be hilariously dumb, I’d count as like 14 people right now.
spoiler
Yes I have a tab problem, no I will not seek help.
Wait actually? Has it done that the entire existence of the site?
That means we likely have at most 30% the users reported as online, if not far less.
Even at that overestimate it puts us at ~622 online…
Do you know if this is how “online users” has been calculated over the life of the site?
So when we had ~800 users online for weeks, it was really like 250 people?
Yeah I didn’t think so, only that something fucky was going on with the system.
No site with nearly 2000 people online should be so slow with posts.
Having a full transparency post about the traffic we get would be appreciated, and make it a lot better to track how outreach on Reddit effects activity and traffic here.
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.
Hmm I’ve got an idea how it could be fixed, been a while since I’ve touched the code but I could attack it this weekend when I’m done with my math exams lol
who the fuck is scraeming “LOG OFF” at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off
