Daily Puzzle solved by nearly a million daily?

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justbefair

The numbers posted show how many people are solving the Daily Puzzle.

967,323 for the puzzle the other day.

 

/  So how come the numbers jumped that high from only 5,000 or so per day through the first half of the year?  Only 5,166 for June 2nd. All the numbers for June and May were in that range.

/  You can go through the numbers every day and it appears there was a big jump in August.

Kyu13

GREAT! THX

justbefair

August 1st      16,759

August 2nd      16,484

August 3rd       16,209

August 4th        16,172

August 5th        19,892

August 6th         27,613

August 7th         36,689

August 8th          48,165

August 9th          63,009

August 10th       84,810

August 11th      113,620

August 12th       457,747

August 13th       684,470

/  Is this how Gangnam Style got started?  Is it possible that 200 times as many people are doing the Daily Puzzle now as compared to June?

Martin_Stahl

Could be that the apps hit the daily puzzle a different way before then?

xor_eax_eax05

There could be a bug in the code which counts it, or they could be padding stats, which is more likely.

fastcheckmater

So great to see chess.com's hard work of finding good puzzles is not going into vain

Martin_Stahl
Squid wrote:

did they add the counter in august? it only counts it after the counter was added

 

That's certainly possible. I don't do the Daily Puzzle enough to know how long it's been there.