dead community still shows users/month

[Die4Ever]

Requirements

• [x] This is a bug report, and if not, please post to https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support instead.
• [x] Please check to see if this issue already exists.
• [x] It's a single bug. Do not report multiple bugs in one issue.
• [x] It's a frontend issue, not a backend issue; Otherwise please create an issue on the backend repo instead.

Summary

This community hasn't had activity in over a year: https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/c/ut99_crowdcontrol

But the sidebar still shows 10 users per week, 10 users per month, and strangely 1 user per 6 months?

It's also misleading in the list of communities: https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities

This makes it more time consuming to subscribe to communities you're interested in.

Steps to Reproduce

1. check https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/c/ut99_crowdcontrol sidebar

Technical Details

BE: 0.19.11

Lemmy Instance Version

0.19.11

Lemmy Instance URL

https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/c/ut99_crowdcontrol

[dessalines]

Might be something wrong with the active counts task. Or the scheduled tasks aren't running at all there, so aren't getting updated.

[gcoin147]

I'm new here how do I get it done

[dessalines]

This is really a back-end issue (or a server misconfig), so I'll transfer it there. There are other issues which would be easier to take on.

[Nutomic]

@Die4Ever Try running a lemmy process with --disable-http-server --disable-activity-sending so it only runs scheduled tasks. Then see if there is anything in the logs. May have to increase the log level as well with RUST_LOG=warn,lemmy_server=debug

[Die4Ever]

Sorry I didn't get a chance to try that. I used an alt account to upvote one post from each community and after a few hours the active users number was updated correctly to 1. Will be interesting to see if it correctly falls to 0 next month.

I have backups though I might try with them if I get some time to look into it.