cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37201414
I dunno why they wouldn’t display both. Also cynical me thinks this is a more useful change for advertisers than users.
That said this would probably be useful for post ranking on the back end, if they’re not already using it. There’s always been a noticeable thing on reddit where posts on large subs with little activity don’t seem to bubble up much on /r/popular. Which makes those subs seem even deader because they don’t get new blood.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
seems to make sense on the surface. inactive users are kind of a useless metric.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is an issue with Lemmy too. Searching for a community by keyword ranks the results list by subscribers not by MAUs
Skavau@piefed.social 1 month ago
Piefed 1.2 will fix this.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Sort by “Top-Month”
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lol, watch YouTube do the same and creators flip the fuck out.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
to be fair, a minority of video creators (and nearly no subreddits) have very long or sporadic upload schedules, which would make the MAU metric be weird bursts. MAU works for regular content which Reddit pretty much always is while only the top YouTube creators do that.
InvestBurnout@fedia.io 1 month ago
I thought they already are doing that?
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 month ago
This kind of already happens there though. Video view counts are visible and often way below a channel's sub count.
Sure, there are exceptions (viral video views often far exceeding the sub count), but by and large they're a good metric for seeing how a channel is actually doing.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
To be fair, just give users ALL the data. Boom "problem" solved.
cm0002@piefed.world 1 month ago
Lemmy has this problem too, its why many think .ml has all these huge comms, but thankfully by MAUs, only like Linux and Privacy are top
(What's the problem with Lemmy.ml?