this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least user a log scale. But start at 0

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feel free to suggest this to the Fediverse Observer team

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, I didn't know.

The monthly graph is pretty interesting in the same way, -400k?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lots of farmbots going down looking at the servers graph

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Interestingly the amount of active users status pretty solid at 200k indeed

[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That graph is so misleading. Makes it look like almost all the users disappeared but the Y axis only covers a small range at the top.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The full range is about 5.5%. So while it is misleading, a 5% drop in a graph that consistent isn't nothing. Something substantial absolutly changed

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe whole Instance that went offline.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

That's my guess to

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cool then it should be 5.5% of the visual space for it to not be misleading. But it’s represented much larger. And OP is (edit to sound less mean) not updating the post sooo…

I call shade

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. Not the over a million that it looks like at a glance.

The user count isn't helpful anyway, active users is a much better measure.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I captured the graph with the number after the decrease at the bottom right to try to show the number of lost users, but I see where you come from

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

no it's not?

you can see the axes and op even mentions that it's a 5% drop

the graph is clearly just fitted to the data

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

the graph is clearly just fitted to the data

That's the problem. It's heavily skewed when compared to the greater overall engagement statistics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

In my classes on analytics, we were taught to prefer using normalised axes starting at 0 to more accurately put changes into perspective.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I edited the title after their comment, it wasn't that clear at the beginning

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interestingly there seems to have been an uptick in comments.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Indeed, the plot thickens.

Maybe the farm bot owner decided to make all comments by a single bot now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Curiouser and curiouser.

Probably some mundane explanation but still...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

would this not happen if a whole instance got shut down?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Either that or blocked the crawler on their Instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have a feeling it was caused by something like that, likely a failure of some kind. The drop is way too steep and abruptly for it to be natural.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An active instance would have an impact on active users

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Maybe it's a problem with the crawler.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which one of you forgot to open the app so we all ceased to exist to save on simulation resources?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Go on... lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was the metric measured before the day the was over which would limit the timeframe of the final day and show fewer users?
I dont see this chart when I click the link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It should be there, it's the second graph