- Joined
- Nov 14, 2012
In our long tradition of end-of-year Null effort posting, I'd like to be the first to welcome in 2017. Granted, there's still a few weeks in which I can raped and murdered before it's over, so lets not get too excited until the ball drops and we start popping champagne corks.
Without being too melodramatic, the year 2016 was pretty shit. There's a lot of obvious reasons why but even more behind the scenes. The dominant theme in 2016 was a stark lack of stability. People, things, systems, and support structures you took for granted eroded. Everything at least feels different, and at least a little shittier. It's pretty amazing how almost everyone experienced some sort of change along these lines this year.
Enough of that, lets look at graphs.
We've continued growing, by a lot. A lot a lot. We're up from 15,000 unique sessions to over 25,000. (The dip is from when I had to reinstall the forum and forgot to add Google Analytics).
On November 10th, we had over 2030 unique accounts active in one day. The most we've ever had. Yesterday, we had 1933. We average 2500 posts per day, up from 1500 this time last year. We broke a new record in posts on a single day: 5142 on November 9th.
According to Cloudflare, we handle over 200,000,000 individual requests in a month.
This is down from about 250,000,000 a few months ago, but that's because of the new chat mod. Each update poll counts as a request, and the new chat mod issues fewer polling requests because it waits for the first request to finish before making another. The old one would stack requests, which is why I think it was crashing. Actual page loads are way up but server resource requirements are down.
After fucking months of paperwork I have finally found a way to set up a donation system that no one will ever be able to fuck with. I'll be posting that system when it's finished along with an outline with my plans for 2017 in a few days. Get hype.
Without being too melodramatic, the year 2016 was pretty shit. There's a lot of obvious reasons why but even more behind the scenes. The dominant theme in 2016 was a stark lack of stability. People, things, systems, and support structures you took for granted eroded. Everything at least feels different, and at least a little shittier. It's pretty amazing how almost everyone experienced some sort of change along these lines this year.
Enough of that, lets look at graphs.
We've continued growing, by a lot. A lot a lot. We're up from 15,000 unique sessions to over 25,000. (The dip is from when I had to reinstall the forum and forgot to add Google Analytics).
On November 10th, we had over 2030 unique accounts active in one day. The most we've ever had. Yesterday, we had 1933. We average 2500 posts per day, up from 1500 this time last year. We broke a new record in posts on a single day: 5142 on November 9th.
According to Cloudflare, we handle over 200,000,000 individual requests in a month.
This is down from about 250,000,000 a few months ago, but that's because of the new chat mod. Each update poll counts as a request, and the new chat mod issues fewer polling requests because it waits for the first request to finish before making another. The old one would stack requests, which is why I think it was crashing. Actual page loads are way up but server resource requirements are down.
After fucking months of paperwork I have finally found a way to set up a donation system that no one will ever be able to fuck with. I'll be posting that system when it's finished along with an outline with my plans for 2017 in a few days. Get hype.
