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Recent site instability, major outages – July/August 2022
Any chance you guys can at least consider changing the error page from the "site is undergoing maintenance" that currently gets used? It’s very misleading, when the issues are not, in fact, ...
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Did Stack Exchange's traffic go down since ChatGPT?
I made some SEDE queries for new question activity, new answer activity, and new user creations per month from 2018 to now (2018 chosen somewhat arbitrarily- I just wanted some more context than ...
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Testing new traffic management tool
Thank you for the (early) heads-up. I have two questions though:
What is the goal you're trying to achieve by implementing this tool?
Can the maintenance entrance on StackStatus include a hyperlink, ...
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Recent site instability, major outages – July/August 2022
Please say the status page is not hosted on the same infrastructure as the rest of SE... I'd hate for that to go down at the same time as an outage on the rest of SE.
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Why is there so little traffic on Fridays?
Why do you think it is "Friday"?
Users and even the company themselves make posts such as "Tuesday 3pm will be the start time of the event". I then have to check and discover "...
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Which site in the Stack Exchange network has the highest ratio of meta-traffic to main-site-traffic?
SEDE can help if you're interested in the total amount of views (of questions). Here is a query which does that:
I'm not sure what to make of the results. I do know that Code Golf has a popular ...
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Why is traffic on some of SE sites stagnant or in decline, and what is the destiny of such sites?
Is there any analysis of what these sites are
Users with enough reputation can view site statistics on https://[SE name].stackexchange.com/site-analytics, e.g., https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/...
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What happens to a Stack Exchange site if it has almost no traffic?
If a community around a topic of a site is no longer actively maintaining or building the body of knowledge each SE site wants to be, then a site will be closed and archived.
From Graduation, site ...
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How is the current pandemic negatively affecting some SE sites?
Thanks to Martin who pointed out this SEDE request by Glorfindel, I was able to make this table:
Colonne1 % more questions % more answers
_TOTAL 3.62% ...
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How is the current pandemic negatively affecting some SE sites?
I happen to be an active user on Interpersonal Skills and we did see an important drop in traffic (I guess people don't have as much interpersonal interaction as they use to).
Here are the data:
As ...
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Using off-topic questions to build beta site activity
New sites tend to be more open with what is and isn't suitable, purely because they haven't grown enough for users to even know what the site is for, so you can't remove posts as unsuitable if you don'...
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Does Stack Exchange have a backup plan in the case of an overwhelming amount of irrelevant content?
In a sense - the Stack Exchange system as it is designed manages it, through the effect of users casting downvotes, closevotes and flags. A user who posts poor quality content will find themselves ...
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Is it true that user activities decline on Stack Exchange during holidays or weekends?
Traffic on Meta Stack Exchange (25k+ only) follows a pattern. I bet you can guess which two days of the week correspond to the dips:
That spike is the beginning of Winter Bash 2020. Traffic on other ...
GlorfindelMod
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Recent site instability, major outages – July/August 2022
We noticed an increase in traffic spikes starting earlier this year, which can sometimes cause site instability
Can you elaborate more on site instability? :P
Does it refer to mass amount of lag? As ...
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Using off-topic questions to build beta site activity
In the long run you will end up with numerous discussions and finger pointing to those off-topic questions, like is done on Stack Overflow every day again.
If the current users, who built the core of ...
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Guidance for "me too"ers (answerers / commenters and upvoters)
Users don't read FAQs (until it's too late and they've already made a mistake). Perhaps an 'answer a question' wizard would work, just like the 'ask a question' wizard?
Answers like that are often ...
GlorfindelMod
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Has activity on the site slowed down since COVID-19?
Activity grew,
looking at the question count
on Stack Overflow
source
GlorfindelMod
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Where can I see a treemap of all the Stack Exchange sites?
You're close; it's https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=grid - you can get there by clicking the grid icon:
That will give you the treemap you're looking for, though it has only two sizes plus an ...
GlorfindelMod
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How can I see if my question is still active?
After some thought about it, I realized it doesn't matter if a question is "active" or not.
Questions which have upvoted answers should not be deleted, at any point of time, if anything they can be ...
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What are Stack Overflow's peak hours?
You can find the latest peak hours for questions, answers, comments and new users on http://sostats.github.io/last24h (GitHub source page). It shows data collected from the Stack Exchange API. Time is ...
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Is the difference between "page views" and "visits" in the site analytics tool documented anywhere?
These figures are copied directly from the Google Analytics API.
Page view matches what you describe.
A 'visit' is now called Session; consecutive page views by the same user within 30 minutes count ...
GlorfindelMod
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Testing new traffic management tool
This QA is currently listed as a "Featured" post, which thankfully led me here. Thank you for posting it.
Within the last few weeks, I noticed that Stack Exchange sites suddenly started ...
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Why is half of the traffic history missing on /site-analytics on Medical Sciences?
This coincides with the Site Name Change & Scope Redefinition, where the site's domain changed from health.stackexchange.com to medicalsciences.stackexchange.com. Of course I can't be 100% sure, ...
GlorfindelMod
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Why is there so little traffic on Fridays?
Well, it might be because people are usually on SE mainly in their spare time at work. Whereas Friday after work they go out with the families, and spend time out and not on SE.
Also on weekends the ...
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Has activity on the site slowed down since COVID-19?
Activity on Super User does not follow the same trend as Stack Overflow:
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Did Stack Exchange's traffic go down since ChatGPT?
On Stack Overflow
I looked at https://meta.stackoverflow.com/site-analytics today.
1. General trend
There has been a steady decline in new questions and new answers for the past several years.
There ...
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Guidance for "me too"ers (answerers / commenters and upvoters)
Similar to Glorfindel's answer regarding the idea of using a custom template, but proposed in specific per-site Metas
Custom templates
Meta Travel
Answer to Comment templates to be used when flagging ...
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Real time SE specific traffic page?
You can watch a real-time list of post activity (questions asked, answers posted and posts edited, as a live auto-updating list) at
https://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=realtime
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