What can we do to change this? I don't think chapo.chat will ever be huge, but it would be nice for it to be consistently active.
What can we do to change this? I don't think chapo.chat will ever be huge, but it would be nice for it to be consistently active.
This is just not true and half the comments here are detached from reality, I've been tracking daily data for a while. Here's the data for the last 4 weeks with the exact numbers hidden but seeing the line is enough for you to see how little has changed from now vs a month ago. As you can see this is not true.. Ignore the dip into the negatives of the daily user gain graph, it didn't actually dip into the negatives there was a database rollback that messed up one day of data, I think that was the day the kerrys managed to mod themselves?
Anyway, don't get worried about this. The site is fine. You're probably logging in at various times of the day where peak and off peak periods occur, this gives very different ideas of overall activity as there are very different activity levels when people are asleep and awake or working in different areas of the world.
I do encourage brainstorming ways to increase growth, growth has definitely taken a dip, but there is a steady stable influx of new accounts. DO brainstorm ways to grow the site though, that should be a constant effort and any big waves that can be created will be extremely beneficial. I just wanted to make sure nobody gets demotivated -- Activity is currently extremely stable and healthy.
Lots of people in this thread are overreacting terribly because their perception is a bit warped. The activity is still here but your perception of it has changed due to some homepage algorithm changes.
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Algorithm feels a bit weak, not catapulting things up the comment section hard with enough force.
Either way. This is a good thread with lots of thoughts that are still worthwhile. One thought I'm having about some of the drop-off is that we need a method re-engage people that drop-off. Having something like a weekly or bi-weekly email that goes out with a list of the top 10 or 20 threads would remind people that we exist for those who might accidentally fall into user-churn due to daily routine changes that can affect user habits.
User churn is going to happen one way or another, activity is a permanent downward slope in every community, we need to grow faster than user churn while also finding ways to re-engage the users that do churn. Lots of people don't intentionally stop viewing a site, they just drift away for one reason or another because something else takes their interest or something in their life (work or school changes) causes a routine upheaval. Everyone only has x hours per day to dedicate to various different things and because we're humans we're creatures of habit so we build routines around the things we do. But when people's routines go through an upheaval like that it opens a bit gap where anything else can accidentally replace things that were formerly part of routine.
On that note too we should be routine-building. Though I think the megathread does that and generally speaking coming back to view the new hottest threads once per day is also a natural routine-building format that reddit's format is built around. Although ChapoChat seems to present a much too quickly moving bunch of threads, I still strongly believe we should have at least 4 of the top of the day threads on people's front page at all times.
I think what someone else suggested here about default light theme has merit. It's preference to people, those that like dark themes will switch to dark mode.
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Different for each graph because the numbers are wildly different for each. User gain is 0-500ish. Posts are 0-800ish. Comments are 0-6000. The huge spike in user gain I'm guessing was probably a mass creation of accounts intended to attack the site with but I'm only guessing, I never got an explanation and I don't expect to get one as it's the kind of information the devs/admins should keep to themselves.