13,000 (and a bit) posts

Written By: - Date published: 3:22 pm, October 1st, 2013 - 14 comments
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TS_right_now_20131001I’ve managed to miss a milestone on this site (again). As you can see, we’ve passed 13,000  published posts over the weekend.

That really isn’t bad for a voluntary coop over a 6 year period with no particular publishing schedule beyond “put something up if and when you feel like it”. Looking back, I see that 12k posts was sometime just before April 22nd.

As you can see, we’re well on our way towards 700k comments with just under 629k done to date. Since we were at 551k comments on April 22nd, this means we’re running at about and average 14.7k comments per month over the last 5.3 months. Yikes…. That means we have stayed well above level of daily comments to get over 15k per month comments since I noted that we’d hit it in early August. Here is the chart from then.

Comments per month to August 2013

And it is a long way to the election.

For those of you interested in the spam that is the bane of a sysop’s lives, you can see the numbers in the Dashboard that have been passed to humans to look at over the years (~116k comments). Then there ones that Conditional Captcha rejected in the last couple of years before we saw them (~110k comments) use akismet to check for dodgy comments – which is why most of you don’t have to fill in a captcha for every comment. What you probably don’t realise is that the volume of total spam and ham…

akismet

 

Slightly more than the published comments. The total ham doesn’t nearly add up to total spam + published comments. Almost all of the difference is from edited comments because each of those edits gets checked, with the smaller number of comments that people trash after writing.

Oh well, I’d better get back to writing code rather than prose.

14 comments on “13,000 (and a bit) posts ”

  1. red blooded 1

    All this and a snappy new phone version, too. Keep on setting the standard, lprent.

  2. ..goodonya..!

    ..and it’s not a competition or anything..

    ..but the resource/searchengine/content-mine i have built @ whoar..

    ..has just over 78,0000 posts..

    ..whoar..!

    ..eh..?

    ..the size of that number makes me feel tired..

    ..what was i thinking..?

    ..phillip ure..

  3. Rogue Trooper 3

    😀

  4. bad12 4

    Zoom, don’t them comments plummet after elections, going to have to build a couple of extra floors on the graph for the 2014 one by the looks of it…

    • lprent 4.1

      …don’t them comments plummet after elections…

      What else would you expect from a political blog 😈

      …couple of extra floors on the graph for the 2014…

      Don’t tell me about it. I’ve been working for a while on ramping the site across several servers to get ready for the wind up to the election.

  5. just saying 5

    Wee contribution towards 700k.

    Seriously though – Go Standard bloggers! Top talent, great people.

  6. just saying 6

    On the way ….to 700 k.

  7. beatie 7

    Well done..and thank you.

  8. tricldrown 8

    Iprent great job on smart phone edition how easy would it be to put an app out android and iphone.
    Even if you charged a small sum I for one wouldn,t mind helping pay to run site.

    • Akldnut 8.1

      Really looking forward to an iphone and android app, would mke it a lot easier for some of us.

    • lprent 8.2

      I’ll have a look around. Problem is that there are many crap apps around and I’d be quite uninterested in doing something like that.

      Coincidentally I’m just about to start writing a android app for work 🙂 I managed to dodge the iOS nightmare – someone else had to put up with Apple’s ability to break any application on each operating system release.

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