Anonymous User asked: was there a sizable boost in activity when news broke that kissinger kicked it?
remind me when i’m actually working in the morning and i’ll check. but my feed is waaaaaaaay more active than usual rn, which is saying something, so im guessing yeah we had a spike
an imperfect measure but the easiest one for me to quickly get together.
included is a chart counting the number of times per [interval]1 that the "make a new post" API route was called over the last 7 days. included is a rolling trend group to detect anomalies; we use a similar technique for warning about higher than average site usage, as this can occasionally cause issues2.
you will note that there is a very large anomaly yesterday evening, at a time when posting is usually starting to wind down for the night. you'll never guess what happened to cause this.
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not 100% sure what it is at this zoom level but it's not especially relevant to the point
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this used to be a much bigger problem before we changed a lot about how posts were rendered. frontpage on HN was enough to cause serious perf issues back then
