@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.
I Thought it was only this instance that was "affected"
@selea So your instance has seen the same effect? Yea I was worried it was just us as well at first. It appears something funky must be going on with joinmastodon then...
Hopefully @Gargron knows whats up and if he doesnt at least he has been alerted there is an issue.
It is strange because the site actually appears to be working fine.
Well, I am not sure that it has something todo with joinmastodon.org actually, it _may_ just be a trend over the whole network. If I recall correctly, it looks like there is only 30-50% of new user registration network wide if I look at the @mastodonusercount? Normally I've seen number around 100 per hour,
The trends on that bot seem somewhat normal. QOTO saw about a 80% reduction in traffic, the bot you linked at worst shows a small barely noticeable reduction.
Yea taht would seem to be in line with the 80% reduction I and other admins have seen.
Though its important to note it doesnt appear to be **all** instances on joinmastodon at least. I have spoken to three people including yourself on joinmastodon so far.. Including me 3 said they saw a huge reduction one said he didnt.