Is DU very busy here overnight? Is there lots of traffic?

[Madam45for2923]

What would account for that? Many DUers overseas? Lots and lots of night owls?

[Madam45for2923]

1. Yep, I see some OP's get lots of recc's overnight. Which is good for them but kinda surprising.

0. Is DU very busy here overnight? Is there lots of traffic?
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What would account for that? Many DUers overseas? Lots and lots of night owls?

[dalton99a]

3. Perhaps DUers in St. Petersburg?

or Moscow

[Madam45for2923]

6. I posted this question to Skinner in the ATA forum.

dalton99a
3. Perhaps DUers in St. Petersburg?
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or Moscow

[cwydro]

4. DU doesnt seem as busy as it used to be.

GD used to be much more active, with new threads every few minutes. Now it seems I can go away for a few days, come back, and the same threads are on the first page - even with less than 50 replies.

No idea why; I kind of miss the more active days.

[Madam45for2923]

5. So how to account for an OP getting lots of recc's in record time & overnight?

cwydro
4. DU doesnt seem as busy as it used to be.
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GD used to be much more active, with new threads every few minutes. Now it seems I can go away for a few days, come back, and the same threads are on the first page - even with less than 50 replies.

No idea why; I kind of miss the more active days.

[cwydro]

7. No idea.

I’m simply commenting on what I see on a daily basis.

I rarely pay attention to recs, never have.

[Madam45for2923]

9. Ok! Thanks for your response!!

[yardwork]

10. I can tell you why. It was almost impossible to post on DU for 18 months.

Lots of people never returned.

[cwydro]

13. Yeah, I figured that had something to do with it.

I think the ugliness of the primary season turned a lot of people off the site too.

[Madam45for2923]

2. Gonna ask this question to Skinner on the ATA. Just so very curious.

[yardwork]

8. Lots of juries at night with one-sided decisions.

I’m thinking that the workers are in Ukraine. They probably don’t get paid enough to live in Moscow.

[Madam45for2923]

11. So it could be something concerted? Agenda-ish-ed? I did post this question 2 Skinner in ATA forum

[yardwork]

12. Ya think?

[still_one]

14. I actually am traveling in Spain right now, and when I have access to WIFI check in

will be back to the states in about a week

[Madam45for2923]

17. So in your experience is there a lot of traffic during USA overnight hours? Could you see an OP

racking up lots of Recc's overnight while most Americans are asleep?

[still_one]

29. Probably not, but I never checked, and your point is right on for concern. Thanks

[Docreed2003]

15. Im one of the weird time posters....

Im a night owl and with my work I’m often up in till the early am hours a couple nights a week. Likewise, I’m often up before dawn on others days. That being said, I do find it “strange” that it’s not unusual for me to be called to jury duty at odd hours.

[Madam45for2923]

16. In your experience is there a lot of traffic during overnight hours?

[Docreed2003]

18. Honestly it depends on the night

Anecdotally it seems like there’s much more night activity Monday through Friday, the weekends slow down significantly at night.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. In my experience as a UK based DUer (and a current host of the main forums), no, traffic is light

though you seem to be mainly concerned with the number and timing of recs, which isn't something I pay attention to. But in terms of posts made, no, it's quiet.

Depends on when you count as 'night', of course - after midnight Pacific time? Before 6am Eastern? That's only a 3 hour window.

For posts, it's fairly easy to count, if you look at the site at the start and end of a period. GD has the majority of posts (in the last 30 days, 117,626, compared to 23,688 in LBN, and 4,596 in Video; few groups are active these days). So, it'll be easiest just to look at the GD figures. For that, get the unique number assigned to the most recent post - look at the most recently updated thread in GD, and the latest post in it. The 'permalink' URL for that post ends "pid=9709645" while I compose this. Do the same a few hours later, subtract the old 'pid' from the new one, and you find out how many posts to GD were made in that period.

[moriah]

19. Second and third shift workers?

Or people like me who can't keep a sleeping schedule?

[Madam45for2923]

20. So is there lots of traffic overnight in your experience?

[moriah]

22. Not really. Things move slower off the front page.

That actually could explain some things.

I do wish that there was a way to denote country of IP origin in posts for MIR team members. Along with blocking known proxies/TOR exit nodes (or flagging those IPs specifically if they want to keep access for people who might be trying to bypass censorship).

That might require more coding than Skinner can implement, though. And I am fairly sure he has a day job, and might even have... omg! a life... Even if he feels it's worth coding in, given the issues of hacking and compromise and bots, it wouldn't happen overnight.

[Madam45for2923]

23. Interesting. Maybe I should add your request to my ATA question?

Is that ok if I did that?

[moriah]

25. If you want. Could help MIR identify early trolls.

But they do a pretty good job, and Skinner may not want to potentially discourage expat Dems who vote, military Dems stationed overseas (they do exist), etc.

[Madam45for2923]

27. Yep, I used to be an expat myself til recently. La vida expat is FUN!!!!! even in Saudi Arabia.

[csziggy]

26. I'm among those who can't keep a sleeping schedule

But recently in an effort to improve my sleep I have been shutting off my computer at midnight. I used to leave it on 24/7 and would be tempted to wake it up and check DU when I'd wake in the wee hours of the morning. Since it takes several minutes to boot I am not turning it on to simply check for updates at those times.

[mcar]

21. I've wondered about that too

I'm grateful, though, for our good MIRTers who are on the night shift.

[Madam45for2923]

24. I know. I also want to safeguard our DEM DU site!

21. I've wondered about that too
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I'm grateful, though, for our good MIRTers who are on the night shift.

[democratisphere]

30. drumpf insomnia is rampant here.

[unc70]

31. DU is far less active at night than in the past

Postings on DU seem subjectively to be down from in the past, particularly in the midnight to 8am ET period. I have always had an erratic sleep pattern, plus foreign travel, so I have brief check-ins at all hours. I am comparing to non-campaign periods in the past. Activity was, of course, vastly greater last year.

I think the overall quality of the posts at DU is down from the past. Maybe it’s just me. I am so tired of OPs with titles like “Wow!” with just a link or a video with no context or summary; or with links to drive traffic to vanity blogs; or yet another attack on Bernie to stir all that again; or another OP in GD where opinions are dismissed if one is not black, not a woman, or whatever. DU has lost a lot of its feeling of community; I no longer recommend DU to others, though I still come here fairly often.

One thing that is more active is jury duty. Given how many juries I am on each day, I can only imagine how many there must be in total, almost all from attacks on Bernie and his supporters by the same few posters over and over again in threads I would not read otherwise.

[Lucinda]

32. Depends on what is going on in the world... n/t