The peak time is at this time every day.
Just give up and come back in an hour, or go to the comments.
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Well, this is becoming more common. It never used to be like this. Lately, it's whenever I'm online checking the site(day or night) Seems like Danbooru has become extremely popular in the last month or so more than anything.
As to how to solve the problem, not a clue other than try checking at odd times or just getting lucky.
Yeah, this is getting out of hand. I can barely get through at all anymore. I checked the Alexa stats, and the traffic does seem to be ramping up. Mid June was when it was at its peak.
If the server costs are too much to handle, perhaps it's time for a donation drive? I have a few bucks to spare, no problem.
If you compare "danbooru.donmai.us" and "moe.imouto.org" using alexa.com's ranking system, the graph shows that visitors to moe.imouto.org increased a lot until early June, at which point it suddenly started dropping. At the same time, danbooru.donmai.us's line rises sharply. memegui was (I think) suggesting that there was a mass exodus of users from moe.imouto.org to danbooru.
However, if you compare "donmai.us" and "imouto.org" instead of "danbooru.donmai.us" and "moe.imouto.org", you get exactly the same graph. The numbers shown in the graphs are representative of visitors to anything.donmai.us and anything.imouto.org. Since imouto.org hosts many other websites (iirc), the numbers are pretty much meaningless.
Also, I'm pretty sure anyone who goes to moe.imouto.org has always known about danbooru, since danbooru was sort of "the original".
Is that easier to understand?
0xCCBA696 said: Also, I'm pretty sure anyone who goes to moe.imouto.org has always known about danbooru, since danbooru was sort of "the original".
They also have markedly different content, with moe focusing on scans and danbooru on fanart. So one isn't really a replacement for the other anyway.
I meant I couldn't understand your logic. If imouto has a lot of subdomains shouldn't that boost it's rank rather than lower it? I assumed though that the traffic of those subdomains in both donmai.us and imouto.org are negligible compared to danbooru.donmais.us and moe.imouto.org respectively though, isn't this correct? The shift between the rank of both domains on Alexa is just so linear that I find it hard to believe that the moe users moving to Danbooru isn't the reason.
jxh2154 said:
They also have markedly different content, with moe focusing on scans and danbooru on fanart. So one isn't really a replacement for the other anyway.
I didn't mean that moe was a clone of danbooru, just that since danbooru (afaik) was the first website of its kind, users of moe.imouto.org would probably be familiar with it, if not users of it. Thus, a mass exodus would make no sense.
memegui, I know you're trying to inflate your post count, but isn't a triple post a bit much? My logic is that since imouto.org has many subdomains, even if tons of people left moe, it wouldn't affect imouto.org's rank much. Though talking to dovac on irc, it does seem that most of the sites he hosts aren't even under the domain name imouto.org anyway, so the point is sort of moot.
0xCCBA696 said: I didn't mean that moe was a clone of danbooru, just that since danbooru (afaik) was the first website of its kind, users of moe.imouto.org would probably be familiar with it, if not users of it. Thus, a mass exodus would make no sense.
I know, I was backing up/agreeing with what you said, not questioning it.
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