Relationships' loudest number still has nothing sized to match it . 2026-09-10 . gossip

Relationships posted the sheet's loudest number for a third straight day, and the sweep's closest lead, a broad shift away from swipe dating apps toward real-life and interest-based matching, comes nowhere close to the size of the move.

Radar only, and still unexplained.

how relationships was measured today

Counted layer · the radar, 134 of 208 sources reporting

Relationships's day ran 11.1 per 100 sources; usual is 14.9

counted 17:28 UTC · per 100 reporting · against 11 stamped days

The idea

Each window counts the sources a day publishing on relationships, per 100 sources reporting, so a day when more sources report does not read as busier. The signed number is today’s distance from its usual, in standard deviations.

Look for

The dot is today; each tick is one of the 11 stamped days before it.
The band is the usual range, one standard deviation each side: 6 of 11 days fall in it.
All three windows sit below their usual.

The numbers

-0.611 day, in standard deviations

11.1sources a day per 100, today

14.9its usual, the mean of 11 days

11stamped days behind it

Limits

It says the volume moved; it does not say why.
It counts sources publishing, not a share of all talk.
Under 14 stamped days a window reads early, a hollow dot; under 7 it does not print.

How it is measured

Per 100: sources publishing on the domain in the window, a day, over sources reporting that day, times 100. Usual: the mean of up to 56 stamped days before this sheet, one per scan, this sheet’s own scan left out; the spread is their standard deviation. Deviation: today less the usual, over the spread. src/data/cover-2026-09-10.json counted.domains, scripts/build-cover.py rep_scores.

This is the counted layer: how much the feeds we read published about relationships, per source reporting, against what they usually publish. The story above is the heard layer, written from sources. They are kept apart on purpose.