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

  • Awoo [she/her]
    1·
    4 years ago

    Comments are going up drastically. People are probably visiting fewer posts than before because their session is spent in comment sections longer than visibly looking at and voting on posts.

    If you think of a person's session as having an average length, let's say 1 hour to be convenient. If someone was spending 30 minutes viewing posts and 30 minutes in comment sections previously but is now spending 20 minutes viewing posts but 40 minutes viewing comment sections -- the result you will get is fewer votes on posts and significantly more comments.

    Here's the comment data per day.

    The total posts are trending upwards too, but not as strongly as the comments. My guess is people are considerably enjoying the comment sections here and getting sucked into them more than over on reddit. User behaviour is still adapting and changing to adapt to seeing ChapoChat as its own separate thing to reddit so there are currently changing habits in the userbase. It will probably take a long time to settle especially with an actively changing site due to the fast dev work.

    I'm speculating of course but if you keep everyone's session length the same and change how much of that session is spent within each area of the site you would end up changing comment totals, post total and vote totals in a variety of ways and since post totals aren't going up as quickly as comments this is what I think. People just love how friendly and pleasant ChapoChat is compared to reddit, getting a message notification is a pleasing thing instead of something the users dread like on reddit.

    • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
      3·
      4 years ago

      All of this might be true, but the weird inflated number of online users comes because we're counting every tab as someone online, as established elsewhere in this thread.

      • Awoo [she/her]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Oh yeah absolutely. I had noted it and noticed that the jump in online users had not also corresponded with a jump in comments or posts. It's clearly just a change in the backend caused by ongoing development that occurred on the 7th.

        Things look very healthy besides that bug though. Everything continues to trend upwards nicely at a steady and comfortable pace. New user gain is accelerating slowly too. Ignore everything before the spike, data in that period was clearly warped by mass account creation for the purpose of wrecking and you can clearly see the exact date wrecker nonsense ceased. Average new users per day is trending upwards at a steady pace. The site will double in size in a year if no change in user gain occurs but I would bet on a larger gain in size due to acceleration. The more users we have, the faster we will grow. Probably 3 times the size we are now or more in 12 months time. By 24 months the site could be back at subreddit numbers. By 36 months who knows what.