Comments on: Measuring LiveJournal growth

By: caoilte

caoilte — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:48:47 +0000

I wonder if the stats includes syndicated accounts or not…. I know I’ve created several since getting a paid account.

Also about 30% of my friends list used the end of invite codes as an excuse to get a new account.

Great graph btw (google found it for me), the overlapping is pretty illustrative for a quick hack.

By: quirrc

quirrc — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:24:03 +0000

post by day count is always approximatley the same or grows slowly. that rise of accounts numer is clearly due to people creating multiple accounts. Current mood:чукча-мыслитель

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:11:55 +0000

I’m not — I’m graphing new accounts per day.

By: ginavenolia

ginavenolia — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:01:31 +0000

Then where are you getting the more recent postsbyday numbers to graph?

By: rixim

rixim — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:49:55 +0000

not to say that there isn’t the interest… but, can that rate of growth can be maintained? i mean it seems to already be dropping a good deal. before invite codes lj seemed to be approching a non-linear curve. it will be interesting to see what sort of curve develops now.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:23:34 +0000

I was poking through the stats generation bits to find out when/why postsbyday went away, and found out that you do do pretty stats like those, just not for as long a time period (although you did use more historical data for the posts chart -- it's just out of date. Say, I bet you're generating a new but identical post count chart nightly...). Was postsbyday intentionally never re-implemented for log2, or was it just pulled out because there was nothing to see in log anymore and then forgotten?

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:06:41 +0000

It went away here, when you could no longer just count the posts on an unclustered installation. I'm not sure if it was intentionally omitted for clustering, or if it was just never redone.

By: mcfnord

mcfnord — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:53:28 +0000

that makes sense.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:52:41 +0000

that seems strange. it seems like a valuable and inexpensive metric

By: medlir

medlir — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:50:46 +0000

LJ started their use of Invite Codes, and people were going to start flooding to DJ, which couldn’t handle the influx at the time.

http://www.deadjournal.com/~medlir/2001/08/28/