• DessalinesA
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    3 years ago

    Last activity is a much worse indicator of liveliness. It’d be trivial for single people to necrobump dead communities with no users to make them seem lively by having recent activity.

    instead of showing a liveliness of a community it just shows share of content creators, ignoring passive consumers.

    Its not just posts, but comments too. Passive viewers don’t make a community feel alive, only people who make some contribution do.

    • tracyspcyOP
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      3 years ago

      I see your point.

      But in my perception “user/month” still may look like only 77 users from 833 subscribers visited community at least once per month. And such metric may make a feeling for users, that our already not that a huge instance consists of ghosts - inactive users and is even smaller than it is in reality. Reddit is huge, but I have never seen that they demonstrate amount of “active users among subscribers”.

      To check my point, you can simply ask someone outside a dev team and active contributers: “What does user per month in communities list mean?”. Of course it is just a friendly suggestion.