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Bael

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Huge registered player drop
« Topic Start: January 30, 2012, 06:19:34 PM »
I was just checking the stats on Dwilight, and between the middle and end of last month the registered player base declined by one third. Surely this must be a bug? Or was it a sudden, massive cleanup? Or somehow related to the new code? Any other theories?

Edit: mind you, I believe that is a global statistic. Hmm...
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Zakilevo

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Re: Huge registered player drop
« Reply #1: January 30, 2012, 06:20:46 PM »
Probably some old data got cleaned up.
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Re: Huge registered player drop
« Reply #2: January 30, 2012, 06:31:56 PM »
At irregular intervals, inactive and abandoned accounts are deleted. That is probably what this was.
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Re: Huge registered player drop
« Reply #3: January 30, 2012, 07:22:24 PM »
Specifically, I believe there was, for some time, a bug in the cleanup script that led to old inactive accounts not being removed.

This bug was fixed, leading to the large number of auto-deletions a few weeks ago, and that drop in the registered count.
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