Andrew

u/andrew@pythag.net
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If anyone has a old microSD card lying around (that's got some write cycles left), a donation of that would be enough to get this community going again. It doesn't have to be massive (the one that died was 8 GB). If so, and it's not a ball-ache posting to the UK, I can provide my address.

There's nothing like that that's preventing it being listed.

The community was started 2025-01-19 17:37:24 - less than 4 days ago as I'm writing this. The bot gets it's data from a crawler, so there's a bit of lag, but not much - it's got about 3 days of data on it.

It needs 7 days, because it works by taking a rolling average of the previous 7 days. You'd see some crazy results if it started publishing results earlier. Doubly so because that community hasn't really grown organically, and has benefitted a lot from Fediverse drama.

Apologies to anyone browsing by 'New Comments', but I'm using this old post for a bit of cheeky testing in production.

Paging myself: @andrew@pythag.net
Paging another local user: @sfc@pythag.net
Paging a remote user on a different instance: @freamon@lemmy.world
Paging a remote user on this instance: @freamon@feddit.nl
Paging the OP of this post: @tcbot@feddit.nl

The only available values are the ones that a) are provided by Lemmy's API, and b) picked on by the crawler at https://lemmyverse.net. I don't think that includes visitor counts.

There's no point in a bot that posts any absolute values, as they're available from the platform itself. The idea with the bot is to track growth, and if there's no growth, well, there's no growth. I'll see if the bot can post less often for NSFW stuff, like once a week, as a daily post isn't usually producing much of anything worthwhile.