On Wednesday morning, I submitted my website to reddit. About 5 hours into it, I got the “ol’ reddit hug”, which I later learned is a term that describes an event in which a website crashes from too much incoming reddit traffic. While the site was down for the majority of the ~12 short hours it was on the front page, it still ended up with a pretty good amount of data.

To give you a brief background on the site, txtwar.com uses an algorithm to calculate how long you should wait to text your crush back. I’ll go into how the algorithm works in a separate post, but in a nutshell, the site asks for three main points that can be dumbed down to the below:

Looks Likability Response Time

With these inputs, the algorithm generates the amount of time one should wait to text back. The site was used almost 100,000 times before the crash, which gave me more than enough data to analyze. Here are some findings below: