Well, as mentioned that is also covered by the Monthly Active Users metric that already is available. But in addition to that, I think it would be interesting to see the number of users who read and vote but don't post or comment. Even though posting and commenting is the biggest part, actively voting is still an important part of the ecosystem.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 10 months ago

True, could be nice to see data on content consumers, and not just the content creators.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I changed the algorithms in programming.dev to take into account voters in the activity. Since stats are all calculated locally you can view any community from programming.dev to get the monthly active users including that change

e.g. https://programming.dev/c/technology@lemmy.world shows 27.8k users/month on p.d which is almost as much as the value here for all of lemmy excluding voters

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's crazy! User/month goes from only 7.5k active to 27.8k. And that's just people voting. What about people who only read a post?

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dont have access to those stats in the database so adding on voting is the best I can do

Theres a post read table but its only people who have explicitly marked something as read and is way less than the post likes

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do posts get marked as read when you read the comments? There's the x new comments feature, so something must be storing that timestamp.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I dug through the code and turns out the post read table does store when its read (with number of comments when it was read stored in a person post aggregates table), it just only stores it for people from your instance so I cant get accurate numbers from all of lemmy (and why it seemed like there was a low amount)

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !technology@lemmy.world

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

!vintageLA@lemmy.world

*edit: so, that seems to not have worked in the Boost app. Is it a link for anyone else?

vintagela@lemmy.world

That doesn't seem to make a hyperlink either.

/c/vintagela@lemmy.world

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All three of those work in Thunder!

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks! I guess it's just a bug in Boost.

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Agreed. Lurkers are what keep these sites alive.