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.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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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
Maybe whole Instance that went offline.
That's my guess to
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
It's like 70k users.
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.
true that
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
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
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
I edited the title after their comment, it wasn't that clear at the beginning
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.
In my classes on analytics, we were taught to prefer using normalised axes starting at 0 to more accurately put changes into perspective.
would this not happen if a whole instance got shut down?
Either that or blocked the crawler on their Instance.
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.
An active instance would have an impact on active users
Did an instance go down?
Maybe it's a problem with the crawler.
Probably but which instance has over 70,000 users?
At least user a log scale. But start at 0
Feel free to suggest this to the Fediverse Observer team
Ah, I didn't know.
The monthly graph is pretty interesting in the same way, -400k?
Lots of farmbots going down looking at the servers graph
Interestingly the amount of active users status pretty solid at 200k indeed
Which one of you forgot to open the app so we all ceased to exist to save on simulation resources?
Go on... lol
Interestingly there seems to have been an uptick in comments.
Indeed, the plot thickens.
Maybe the farm bot owner decided to make all comments by a single bot now.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Probably some mundane explanation but still...
LOL
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
It should be there, it's the second graph