1052 sats \ 23 replies \ @kilianbuhn 17 Jun \ parent \ on: This Day in Stacker News: June the 17th meta
Yeah. At this point it's clear that few people zap a lot. The way to actually scale SN is to get more people instead.
The push to get people from 1 or 2 sats up to 10 or 20 was pretty successful. However, getting people to go much higher has been like tilting at a windmill.
The problem with scaling is that we haven't been able to accomplish that either.
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You mean in number of users?
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Yeah, if you look at the analytics page, you'll see that the number of stackers and spenders has been declining lately.
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Just now I was looking at the analytics, and a little more than 10 users registered today, I think it's little, I'm realizing that the people who zap are getting less and less, I zap like crazy but I don't see reciprocity sometimes, I've been in SN for 1 year, I'm not an OG, but I remember better times in terms of zapping.
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I'm really not sure what happened, but it coincided with MSM, which did rub a lot of people the wrong way.
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it coincided with MSM, which did rub a lot of people the wrong way.
Don’t underestimate this. People seem to have drifted away. Need to look at the active users stats for the year really
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But what's the reason for drifting away, for bothering to change daily rewards for a couple of months? or because they liked that format and don't want to continue participating with daily rewards? I don't quite understand it.
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Need to look at the active users stats for the year really
Yes, that's what I was talking about. It's actually pretty dramatic.
One note is that they made a tweak during MSM that was intended to discourage bots and other low-quality sat farmers.
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I do feel a ‘lull’ in activity at the moment. When and how it picks up… I don’t know. Bull run due anytime soon?
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Maybe it had something to do with it... I also think that more posts related to zapping should be opened, to educate new ones, since zapping is one of the cornerstones of Stacker.news.
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That's what I was trying to do with this post: #561854.
I'm all for other people trying to reinforce the message.
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Those types of posts should be pinned.
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Yes, last year in June there were about 856 registrations, now we have more than half a month and we have about 300, we are going at a slower pace even though SN is larger than last year.
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There was a lull in the spring and summer last year. My hope is that it is just a seasonal fluctuation. Obviously, it's too early to know that, but this did happen last year too.
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How could I know that?
I suspected that KR left SN, I don't know what happened there.
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It was more of a rhetorical question. None of us really know how many legit accounts were being created now or then. I see new people joining each day and only a few of them actually respond and zap back when you say "welcome" to them so I assume many are still bots or sats farmers.