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@Gargron qucik question. Has anything changed on joinmastodon in the last week? We saw a rather sudden drop in traffic from the site for some reason. It is significant and i cant figure out why.
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I Thought it was only this instance that was "affected"
I would think so yes, id expect traffic to joinmastodon to show a hit before the instances if that were the case. Technologically everything seems to be working ont he site too, i can even follow the link to my instance and sign up.
Very strange I cant even theorize what could be up...
@freemo @selea Another wild possibility is if new users were coming from Google and Google decided to change the search rankings algorithm in a way that affects fediverse software negatively
That would explain the effect on multiple servers, but I have no data on how many sign-ups come from search engines anyway
I can speculate for us based on general usage. Prior to us being on joinmastodon our signup rate was about what it is at the moment 8 - 11 a day. The day we got back on joinmastodon it went to about 60 a day.
So for us the traffic we are getting now suggests it is most likely related to joinmastodon as we never had that many hits from google anyway.
@Gargron
Long term graph for comparison (you can see this is very unusual for us)
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