The current user count is a Reddit-wide issue that is affecting other subreddits in addition to this one.


This would normally be /r/UFOsMeta stuff, but this has been commented on and posted about repeatedly today on r/UFOs.

It’s also impacting other subreddits so people are curious. Other posts will be removed.

Why are so many people here?

There’s something going on that has come up on a few mod-type subreddits where not just our /r/UFOs subreddit (others too!) are seeing curiously or wildly high numbers. I haven’t seen an answer to it yet, but it seems to have started around about 5am to 6am Eastern USA time today, June 13th 2024 (-ish).

We’re not tracking the weird numbers, but it’s been as high as 50,000+ so far.

What do r/UFOs mods know?

Not much.

There’s nothing extraordinary in our queues, Spam or Reports, /r/UFOs/new or anywhere else obvious. When “big” stuff gets posted, we do always or at least almost always see a spike. Mention certain individuals with extremely pro-Disclosure articles and you will see a spike; and other scenarios have been anecdotally seen to create spikes. But not like this! It could be a glitch and inflated numbers, or it could be a correction to show true numbers… or any other number of things. We’re not sure and nothing has been really communicated to mods that I am aware of anywhere.

That could mean that either the numbers are wrong today or perhaps they’ve been wrong for a while and are now corrected. Maybe they’re accidentally counting things like Google Crawlers now and didn’t before; maybe they only counted subscribed users and now count them all. Maybe it’s a database mistake. No idea.

What do mods here see on r/UFOs numbers?

Every subreddit has a traffic/insights page like this, that only mods can see:

https://www.reddit.com/mod/UFOs/insights

If you make your own subreddit you can see yours. There’s nothing super interesting there, just… a normal seeming day?

Are they real people, bots, or what?

We don’t know, but we do know it’s not just r/UFOs. There’s nothing that’s been posted here that would be likely responsible, if that’s what you’re wondering.

Now what?

If anyone sees or learns anything, let us know. We’re curious too. There is discussion around it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1df0sjo/sudden_high_traffic/

And other spaces, but that’s the main apparent one.

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