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How have I been on Imgur this long and never noticed before today that the upvote notifications trigger on the Fibonacci numbers?
(Nah, I'm really just showing off my comment upvotes.)
Bonus Fibonaccybara.
Hotsauceman
This is amazing! As a math teacher I approve.
ThatSonOfaBitch
Slow down there, Casablanca! Save some booty for the rest of us!
Ngugi
Easy to miss unless online when the notifications strikes, since if you come back later and got more upvotes in between that is what the notification will show [ie, miss a notification for 13 upvotes, then it get 2 more and when you finally check the notification it shows 15 upvotes, seemingly throwing the Fibonacci sequence out the window].
spontaneous9
Heh heh. All part of the plan.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Exactly the dynamics of a piece of poo being flushed
ThotCriminal666
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1YXo2Ymp5c2tuNmp1NGpuNjZqcHBwNHV5emF1M3R0djRvaWRqcnFvYiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/idKeY3nvmdIsM/200w.webp
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
TIL
MrSwissroll
I've always wondered what the basis of the notifications was. I tip my hat to you, arajad
Targe0
Except it doesn't.
It just does it whenever you get a new up vote.
And they keep stacking till you look at your notifications.
So this was pure chance that when OP looked at theirs it followed the sequence.
arajad
Nope. See the ❌s and the timer bars? These are the popup notifications that appear onscreen for a few seconds and vanish. They only pop up when a post or comment hits certain thresholds.
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
picselator
I have been searching the imgur archive and it is indeed something that came up extremely rarely, so you are ok to just notice this. Probably in the 1% :-)
Since I found out about the notifications, one of my favorite activities on imgur is upvoting all comments (and posts) that need just one tick to trigger that notification.
RepostStatisticsRedux
Image #2 last seen 3 hours before at /gallery/Sw3yAPk Title similarity: ★☆☆☆☆ (1/5)
arajad
Clever bot. Yes, I swiped it from @MemeMuseumCurator, always a good source.
L0rdinquisit0r
so the original human imgur programmers were nerdy.
Always wondered why the numbers were "odd"
arajad
Well, every third one is even.
HastyPuddingPops
Heh, I made a post about it like 14 years ago on my old account but it never went anywhere.
arajad
You've got over a decade on me here, then. Hello, fellow nerd.