Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 months agoIt really should.
I changed the algorithms in programming.dev to take into account voters in the activity. Since stats are all calculted locally you can view any community from programming.dev to get the monthly active users including that change
e.g. programming.dev/c/technology@lemmy.world shows 27.8k users/month on p.d which is almost as much as the value here
That’s crazy! User/month goes from only 7.5k active to 27.8k. And that’s just people voting. What about people who only read a post?
Dont have access to those stats in the database so adding on voting is the best I can do
Theres a post read table but its only people who have explicitly marked something as read and is way less than the post likes
Do posts get marked as read when you read the comments? There’s the x new comments feature, so something must be storing that timestamp.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !technology@lemmy.world
!vintageLA@lemmy.world
All three of those work in Thunder!
Agreed. Lurkers are what keep these sites alive.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Strong agree
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 10 months ago
I can see the arguments for both, to be honest. Ideally I’d like to be able to see statistics for both. Active Users and Active Contributors?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
You can already see how many posts and comments users make. Isn’t that the same?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Well, as mentioned that is also covered by the Monthly Active Users metric that already is available. But in addition to that, I think it would be interesting to see the number of users who read and vote but don’t post or comment. Even though posting and commenting is the biggest part, actively voting is still an important part of the ecosystem.