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"

https://hexbear.net/post/38707

    • buh [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Actively opening and closing tabs to maintain an online count of 1917

    • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      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?

        • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          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.

        • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          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.

            • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              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.

            • garbology [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              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.

    • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      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