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Has there been any discussions/thoughts around making these Daily Korero threads less frequent?, i.e., weekly, every other day etc.
There's obviously not a ton of us in here, and some days (like today), there's basically nothing here. Obviously there's nothing stopping anyone replying to a thread from yesterdays Korero, but maybe it leads to a lack of visibility? i don't know.... Just spitting out some ideas :)
To be fair, we've only had 4 threads in the last week! But yes, perhaps the answer is not to have threads posted haphazardly, but instead have one thread per week that people can post on all week.
I think that's a good idea.
I have noticed that the daily threads seem to average alot less comments now compared to a few months ago. Do you have access to the trend on active users etc?
Lemmy itself doesn't keep a history (as far as I know), but the active users are available through the public API so there are sites that track it for instances.
Here's one I just searched up: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.nz
In the Charts section it shows active users (at least one action - post, comment, vote - in the last month or in the last 6 months). It's worth mentioning Lemmy v0.19 was the first to count voting as active users, before that it was only those who commented or posted, so the general increase in the number of active users on lemmy can probably be attributed to how they are counted (as various instances updated to 0.19) and not to an actual increase.
I do note ours shows a little drop recently, but also note that this is users whose accounts are on our instance. Lemmy.nz has about 800 users but /c/newzealand has about 1.5k subscribers and 2k users active on here in the last 6 months, so the stats are a bit misleading because they don't count people who participate here but their accounts are on other instances.
the stats are a bit misleading because they don't count people who participate here but their accounts are on other instances.
Huh interesting. I guess that's another quirk with this whole federation stuff. Maybe it's something that can be fixed in the future.
I guess it's a matter of someone collecting the information. The side bar of the community has active user stats for the community, and I think that should be just as accessible as instance stats.
But sites have been around a long time collecting mastodon and other fediverse stats, and communities don't really exist there. So stats sites don't seem interested in collecting the community info in Lemmy.
I think it's likely doable, just I haven't found anyone actually doing it.
I like the idea of a weekly megathread type thing.
I agree that the daily threads don't seem well suited to the number of people on here. One of the good things about here is that conversations can carry on across multiple days, unlike reddit was where stuff got buried very quickly.
But having a daily thing sorta sends the message that that thread is done after that day. Sometimes I'll read something from an old daily and think of replying, but then think "nah its moved on" because of this.
I got given some coffee (I think this one?) and it was great! I ended up drinking the whole bag in a few days... I drank it black and loved every minute of it.
Now I've gotta drink the one I have and it's just not the same 🫤
Ooh Im a big fan of Ark. I used to live right in front of them, so they had become my main source of beens at that time. I've since started trying out more roasters, but have always been meaning to go back to them.
It's been a while since I've had coffee that I've loved like that!
Now I'm back to the bag I had before, the wine barrel aged one. It's past it's prime but I'm not getting through it because I just don't like it that much 🙁. I like trying out interesting things but should have got a smaller bag.
I don't even like wine. It reminds me of the time I ordered a coconut hot chocolate because someone told me it was the best hot chocolate they had ever had, then when it arrived I tasted it and remembered I don't actually like coconut.
Oh yeah, I remember that wine coffee. 😄
I'm the same sometimes. Not necessarily on coffee, but I get fixated on wanting to try something new, and sometimes it just doesn't work out lol.
That’s an interesting find, thanks for letting us know. I’d not heard of Ark Coffee before. Looks a bit pricey for my pocket, otherwise I’d have given them a try.
Now you mention it, it is pretty pricey! Was good though. But it was a gift so I didn't pay!
I like trying new coffee, and am currently a Hummingbird fan. Have tried all their varieties, except the caffeine free, and liked them all. Not overly roasted so they give a smoother taste to me.
The Ark one I tried was definitely a lighter roast. I also like trying coffee, but currently I'm trying to work my way through the old coffee bag I didn't like. 1KG was too much for an unusual coffe I hadn't tried. Currently having to more than double the beans because it's old and lost it's strength, so hopefully will get through it pretty fast!