@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.

@selea @freemo Huuh. Weird. I haven't changed anything last week, I don't think. Qoto is still 2nd on the first row of servers, so it shouldn't be because of the "load more" button beyond the first 10

@Gargron

For reference and to help you diagnose any potential problem I attached our user grapy. You can see we went from approximately 60 new users a day to 8 new users a day suddenly overnight on tuesday.

So something is up...

@selea

@freemo @selea I don't really know what to make of it, joinmastodon.org traffic has mostly been consistent, no sudden drops

@Gargron

Yea neither do i.. If it weren't for the fact that other instances are reporting the same effect around the same time (as salea mentioned for their own instance) then I wouldnt even suspect joinmastodon.

@selea

@freemo @selea One semi-recent change was that Skeleton quit running Mastodon's Twitter account, but that would've affected joinmastodon.org traffic first, not individual instances, I'd think...

@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

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@Gargron

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.

@selea

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