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[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

At least user a log scale. But start at 0

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

Feel free to suggest this to the Fediverse Observer team

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Ah, I didn't know.

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

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Lots of farmbots going down looking at the servers graph

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 133 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Steve@communick.news 84 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] ademir 31 points 2 days ago

Maybe whole Instance that went offline.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago

That's my guess to

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 35 points 2 days ago
[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 25 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] ademir 3 points 2 days ago
[-] Blaze@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago

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

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ThomasLadder_69@lemmy.ml 5 points 23 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.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 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.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

Interestingly there seems to have been an uptick in comments.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

Indeed, the plot thickens.

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

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Curiouser and curiouser.

Probably some mundane explanation but still...

[-] rxin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Either that or blocked the crawler on their Instance.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 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.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

An active instance would have an impact on active users

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 30 points 2 days ago
[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Maybe it's a problem with the crawler.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago
[-] poke@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

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

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Go on... lol

[-] ademir 2 points 2 days ago
[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

It should be there, it's the second graph

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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