It feels like it's dying. Just anecdotally it seems like there have been less threads lately, less quality threads, and less discussion overall. More anecdotally I feel like the last couple of federation / defederation slap fights ended with many users leaving as well. I can think of a few who left because we were federating, some who left because we then subsequently defederated from lots of the fediverse, and then even a few who said they would leave if we didn't defederate and then left anyway when we did.

I feel like mostly overall I have seen very few new posters, and have seen less and less of some certain power posters.

Is this just a illusion or is this really what's happening. What is to be done?

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There used to be a way to see how many people were online, right? Did that go away completely, or is it just hiding behind CSS?

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Right, but it used to say how many were online now?

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Line of best fit with a logarithmic function on those data points suggests that without taking peaks into account, there are around 350 users online in any given hour. Maybe in the 250-500 range.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

Thanks, but I was more wondering about like what our most active hours were and how that compared to other instances. Like I know we're all pulling nightshifts in moscow, but is that balanced out by our counterparts at Langley?

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

iirc it wasn't exactly accurate anyhow. At one point I believe it counted every tab as a user

[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

I am the Hexbear tabs.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, something like that, but that's something that should've been easy to fix. Just wondering if the number was still available. Woulda been nice to know.

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

I believe the Lemmy backend is now accessible both through websockets and through HTTP endpoints. It doesn’t make the count impossible, but definitely complicates things. I don’t know why the decision was made to remove it, but I trust the devs didn’t remove it arbitrarily.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

are you thinking of a phpBB website

[–] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

Reject modernity, embrace tradition