freamon
@freamon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trending Communities for Friday 2nd August 2024 4 months ago:
It’s the crawler at lemmyverse that’s down - data.lemmyverse.net shows that it hasn’t updated in 11 days
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 31st March 2024 8 months ago:
It’s alright. It didn’t sound like that. I don’t mind investigating if the bot is misbehaving (and I occasionally get the satisfaction of finding out that it’s not)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 31st March 2024 8 months ago:
They come from lemmyverse.net (specifically the JSON file that’s provided every 6 hours at data.lemmyverse.net)
If you want to track growth yourself, you’d need to do what the bot does, and download that file every time.
As for your community, are you talking about ‘Nowhere else to share’? ('cos that’s appeared loads - last Thursday and Friday, for example)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 17th March 2024 9 months ago:
“active users” are defined by lemmy: posts + comments + votes
The bot is trying to catch upwards trend in the amount of active users. This tends to be communities that were dead or fairly dead, and then one or two posts got some engagement and spiked the number up.
In terms of absolute active numbers, there’s no need for a bot because lemmy can tell you that. The bigger communities tend to swing up and down in terms of activity (cancelling themselves out).
For example, tenforward@lemmy.world had 65 posts this week, but active users ended up pretty much where it was. The table below has 28 entries as the crawler at lemmyverse usually reports 4 times a day, so it’s for about 7 days:
posts subscribers active users 903 2466 3233 902 2461 3259 902 2461 3259 895 2453 3194 894 2447 3455 894 2447 3455 888 2443 3392 888 2443 3392 883 2440 3447 883 2440 3447 879 2437 3493 879 2437 3493 875 2434 3467 872 2424 3631 872 2424 3631 868 2426 3588 868 2426 3588 863 2413 3457 863 2413 3457 856 2407 3446 856 2407 3446 854 2402 3247 854 2402 3247 847 2391 3188 847 2391 3188 844 2386 3081 844 2386 3081 838 2384 3235 - Submitted 9 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Trending Communities for Tuesday 12th March 2024 9 months ago:
Might be some rogue results for lemmy.world for a few days: for some communities there’s been a bit of lag (from using the old measurement for active growth to the new one, and/or for the crawler at lemmyverse to pick up on the change)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 28th January 2024 10 months ago:
Yeah. Fixed now. This 0.19.x upgrade business is a ballache.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Wednesday 17th January 2024 11 months ago:
Bah. Sorry - fixed now. My fault for needlessly tinkering with it last night.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 14th January 2024 11 months ago:
A new one appeared at pretty much the exact moment you commented, ha ha.
They’re not automatic atm, 'cos of site upgrades throwing things off, so it’s when I remember to run it manually. Should be back to automated soon, hopefully.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 13th January 2024 11 months ago:
Edited 'cos feddit.uk’s upgrade to 0.19.2 skewed the stats. They’ve stabilised now, apparently. (That poor “we’re all quackers here!” bloke is never going to get a break)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Wednesday 10th January 2024 11 months ago:
When/If lemmy.world ‘upgrades’ to 0.19, I’ll increase the minimum threshold for active users. I’ll also start excluding communities where the growth is mostly coming from negative engagement.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Tuesday 9th January 2024 11 months ago:
Shitty Life Pro Tip - just the one?
lemmy.ml fell over yesterday, btw, so their communities are missing today.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Monday 18th December 2023 11 months ago:
Testing comment notification 1
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 30th December 2023 11 months ago:
Edited to remove some erroneous results, but it’s perhaps by-the-by, since federation seems noticeably worse since 0.19. ‘Resolve_Object’ doesn’t seem to make any effort to retrieve a remote community that the instance hasn’t already heard of. e.g.:
curl --request GET --url ‘https://feddit.nl/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https://reddthat.com/c/dirtroads’ --header ‘accept: application/json’
gets
{“error”:“couldnt_find_object”}
every timeYou can use the web-ui to force through a blank version, but a community without any posts isn’t much use.
- Comment on Jason Momoa Says the Future of ‘Aquaman’ Films Is “Not Looking Too Good” 1 year ago:
Edgar Wright said a similar thing recently: that the best thing they could do with superhero films is take a break, and wait for audiences to become excited about them again.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 16th December 2023 1 year ago:
Some of the strangeness is probably because, at the minute, the ‘active users’ list is a mix of instances that count them as people who post, comment or vote (e.g. lemmy.ml), vs. those that count them as people who just post or comment (e.g. lemmy.world).
The rest is probably because, for those that have changed how they count, there’s a bit of a ripple effect which’ll take a while to dissipate. For example, lemmy.ca upgraded to 0.19.0 overnight, so results from any of it’s communities aren’t included today, because it would be trying to calculate a change from one measuring system to another (e.g. nostupidquestions went from ‘103’ to ‘791’ active users, but it didn’t really, obviously).
However, whilst I’m trying to mitigate the changes from measuring systems, I can’t do much about the fact that now including voters has an exponential effect on how many active users a community has. When lemmy.ml upgraded, diy@lemmy.ml’s active users went from ‘6’ to ‘23’, and I didn’t include that change, but there’s a been a popular post since then, and as we’re now including the voters, the users are at ‘138’. This is a much bigger change (from ‘23’), but as far as the new measuring system is concerned, it’s a legitimate one.
So, until all the instances are on the same version, and until the change in metric has had a chance to bed in, there’ll be some odd-looking results, that I don’t think I can do much about.
All I can say is that any linked community does have at least one recent post, so they shouldn’t be completely dead. If they appear to be so it’s probably for some other mundane reason (blocked users, defeds or poor federation, different languages, etc)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Wednesday 13th December 2023 1 year ago:
I re-ran it manually today, excluding lemmy.ml and lemy.nl, 'cos the percentage growth from one way of measuring to another way of measuring is pretty meaningless (I realise Ategon warned me, but it’s tricky to catch the changes before the bot does)