Roobar wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:13
That's really interesting. But more fascinating is that you collected all that data every day?
Actually, it's not too much data at all, just the date and the Total Posts number for that day, and the difference from the total of the previous day. Also since I usually read the new posts at that time anyway I count them and make sure it adds up. Can take only 30 seconds to write down on the uncomplicated days.
What happened on March 15th, the Mortimer day? There were 2 mods released?
I think it was mainly that it was in fact Keen Day in a good portion of the world at that time (due to the time the data is gathered at, a lot of the Keen Day activity on here is displayed as March 15).
I believe that most of the effect was from it being Keen Day because in 2017 I decided to count the amount of posts just for Keen Day and it ended up being 30 or so, which I remember thinking seemed like 10 times more than usual. So that leads me to believe that this is a common occurrence for Keen Day.
Flat chart when I released Planet Cloudis IX.
On the contrary, there is a spike in activity the following 24 hours after your release, shortly followed by a period of higher activity before declining to normal. Your release post was very close to the data-collection time, so not much of the related activity is displayed on that specific day.
It would be interesting to compare to 2009 or so, when keen 9 was released.
Indeed so, in fact I have wondered if there would be a way to construct a graph of that time period, however the only way I can see to get the necessary data of all those posts and their dates would be to go through every single post on PCKF and record when they were posted, since the search function does not allow limiting results to a very specific date range. Which would be a vastly larger undertaking than simply writing down a couple numbers a day.