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I’ve discovered a possible bug in how wefwef is parsing or displaying community statistics. For example, at the time of this writing, c/science at lemmy.ml shows the following stats in their sidebar:

Users / day: 12 Users / week: 54 Users / month: 157 Users/ 6 months: 244 Subscribers: 8.27k Posts: 1.23k Comments: 1.29k

As the screenshot of the sidebar in wefwef shows, only the “users / day” stat is correct. Wefwef shows 80 subscribers rather than 8.27k.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Ok, continuing to think out loud. It seems that searching from within my instance with a web browser also shows the 80 subscribers (well, 81 now that I’ve subscribed). So I’m not sure what’s responsible for the error. Nonetheless that’s a huge discrepancy between what the community’s sidebar claims 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I don’t think it’s an error - I think that stat shows only the number of subscribers from your instance, not the total number of subscribers from all instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I realised that earlier but I don't like it, it's just not a very useful metric to the end user if it's not total users lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, particularly if you join a small instance and are unaware of the community search options that capture better statistics. It will give new, naive users the sense that all communities are tiny and inactive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I kept getting the feeling that there are barely any users on Lemmy. This does almost no good. It's ok to show both but not only the instance's numbers.

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