I think that with a single exception of at TIL post a week ago, I don’t think we have much visibility or impact on the broader social media world.
I wonder if it would be a good idea for this site to have the ability to temporarily lock out users without a login in the event that something on this site goes viral. Did we see a spike in new users signing up around a week ago?
It’s hard for me to keep track of new users because we’re also having a wave of spam, but my impression is that new-user rates are similar to what they typically are, but that activity in general is higher than usual (roughly matching the peaks that it hit in December).
The following links show LW’s presence on multiple social media websites.
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/domain/lesswrong.com/top/?sort=top&t=all
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=lesswrong&sort=byPopularity&type=storyHackernews: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=www.lesswrong.com&sort=byPopularity&type=story
Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=lesswrong&src=typed_query
I think that with a single exception of at TIL post a week ago, I don’t think we have much visibility or impact on the broader social media world.
I wonder if it would be a good idea for this site to have the ability to temporarily lock out users without a login in the event that something on this site goes viral. Did we see a spike in new users signing up around a week ago?
You’re definitely missing stuff with the Hacker News search, like once every other month or so get a big hit like this or this.
You’re right, I’ve fixed the query, but I don’t think it changes the conclusion much.
It’s hard for me to keep track of new users because we’re also having a wave of spam, but my impression is that new-user rates are similar to what they typically are, but that activity in general is higher than usual (roughly matching the peaks that it hit in December).