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

  • asaharyev [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    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 :)
    • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
      ·
      4 years ago

      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.