No, it's twiddling its thumbs waiting for the crawler at lemmyverse.net to start working again.
I submitted an Issue to the GitHub last time it failed, and the developer responded with some info. I didn't really understand it, tbh, but it looks to be the same problem, so hopefully it'll right itself again.
!nowhereelsetoshare has a broken outbox (no posts if you're the first person from your instance to visit). The Issue was recently fixed, so hopefully the fix will be included in 0.19.4 (and all instances on .3 upgrade to that when it comes out).
Just bad luck I think. The convo on the bug report suggests the problem stems from a user making a post, and then the user being deleted (voluntarily or involuntarily).
Dammit, I spent 9 months carefully curating !freegames and it's never once appeared here, then I made !nominativedeterminism for a laugh and it's already caught on within two weeks lol
FYI I just pinged you in !fedigrow, a community where we discuss how to grow and keep communities active. I remember you being quite an active poster, so feel free to have a look if this sounds interesting to you!
So far, so good. The fundamentals are there, but - obviously - you can't compare software that's been in development for a few months rather then a few years (like Lemmy). I mostly like it because I've been able to contribute to the code. It was written to be easy to understand and add to, so I've been able to do things like handling links from these lists better (so it never dumps you in an "unknown error" if your instance hasn't yet heard of a community, like Lemmy does).
Where do these stats come from? Is there anywhere I can track the growth of a community I made? Because one gained about 100 subscribers this month and it's never appeared here.
I was referring to that one. I guess I miss some of these posts. Thanks for the info! Looking more closely I do see it. I feel silly now. My bad, hope I didn't sound like I was complaining. I also didn't realize Sync only searched comments, not the OP.
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)
How are "active users" defined? Because there's not a single community on the Active User Growth list that got more than 10 posts PER WEEK - that doesn't look very active to be honest...
"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:
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)
The crawler at lemmyverse.net has picked up on an ngrok URL I've used for messing around with Lemmy. I was using it last night to play with PieFed, and saw it make about 20 attempts to read an API that isn't there. I thought - oh, I wonder if that will break it - and sure, enough, there wasn't a 6:00 update from it this morning. Ho hum.
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