Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?

• Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you scroll down it does give historical trends on comments, posts, monthly active users, etc.

  What I meant is why do the graphs look so janky.

  For example:

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  What happened in October 2023 that made so many users join?

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  What happened in March 2024 that made so many people stop posting?

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sept/Oct '23 was the Boost reddit mobile client release.

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  • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    0.19 counts active users differently; prior to 0.19, the count is only if the user posted, after 0.19, all interactions results in the user being counted as an active user. This inflated the active users hugely as all lurkers are counted.

    The active users is dwindling. You can see the steep drop off prior to the change and a slow but continued decline after the update.

    I do not know the reason for the number of posts falling off, but that doesn’t look healthy either to be honest.

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for the post. Something on my browser only shows the pie charts and doesn’t let me scroll down.

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    • dave@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The graphs are all interactive (touch to show labels, etc.). That can interfere with scrolling—try dragging at the edge or one of the pie chart titles. Fwiw, it scrolls ok on mobile safari…

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• admin@lemmy.tellyou.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean there is a a graph about active users over the last months, so I would argue it does regarding user activity?

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