I feel like that would be better than total subscriber count.

  • xe8@lemmy.ml
    8·
    4 years ago

    Yep. Seems like that would give a more accurate overview of actual consistent users.

  • Reaton@lemmy.ml
    7·
    4 years ago

    Yeah I kinda like this idea but I think the best would be to be able to sort communities either by one or the other.

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
    5·
    4 years ago

    Maybe it would also make sense to delete non used accounts? It seems like there are a lot of old test accounts from the dev.lemmy.ml times that probably have not logged in since then.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
      11·
      4 years ago

      The absent accounts don’t bother me too much (you won’t ever see them), but absent communities do. We have a TON of cases of community squatting: people making then immediately abandoning communities. I have a query to find recent activity in a community (posts or comments), but we need to come up with a time frame (no activity in 3 months? 6 months? a year?) for that too.

      • Serge Tarkovski@lemmy.ml
        6·
        4 years ago

        I think there’s a clear distinction between an active community that at some point becomes inactive, and an empty community that has never been active. So different thresholds should be applied in these cases.

      • poVoq@lemmy.ml
        4·
        4 years ago

        Yes true, but the OP problems comes from the fact that subscriber numbers are inflated with abandoned accounts I would guess.