I think the “x users online” thing in lemmy is bugged as hell. It’s never correct for feddit.de, mostly waaaaaay higher than could be correct.
Its the number of open websocket connections, so it also counts users who are not logged in or individual tabs which are opened by the same user.
Ah, interesting, thanks. How long does such a websocket connection last, if a user leaves the website?
I think it should be closed immediately, at least in theory. Anyway we are going to remove websocket in the next major version, then that counter will probably also be gone.
ok, good luck!
See the sidebar for main page and various sublemmy sidebars.
Yep. We have really good queries for activity, which for us means “a local person who has posted / commented in the last X timeframe”.
These are on the site and community sidebars.
Unlike reddit, we don’t gain anything by inflating our numbers, so when it says this community has 84 users / day, that means 84 unique real people have posted / commented in the last day.
Oh, I didn’t realize it’s only users who have posted/commented. That explains the numbers.
For sure… one reason I use that, is because there are a lot of dead reddit communities with massive user counts. Because communities rise and fall, total user counts aren’t really a good way to gauge activity.
Good approach, yea. Stumbling over a subreddit with thousands of users only to realize that nothing’s ever posted is really annoying.
