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As someone who pays an inordinate amount of time pondering things, I noticed some recent milestones for SoylentNews and thought these might be of interest to the rest of the community. In round numbers we have:
- 20 Months since SoylentNews went live (on February 14th, 2014.)
- 20 Current staffers who keep things running.
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200150 Subscribers.[*] - 5,900 Registered users.
- 8,400 Stories posted.
- 10,000 Stories submitted.
- 250,000 Comments posted (almost -- who will get it?)
- 166,770,000 page hits on the site (yes, 1/6 of a Billion!)
What started as a protest activity (The Slashcott) burgeoned into action in the form of taking a several-years-old, non-maintained code base and, through the alchemy of dedication and sleep deprivation, came to be known as SoylentNews. There were numerous site crashes and outages, but things gradually stabilized. We were incorporated (completed on July 4th, aptly enough). Other niceties started to make their way onto the site: moderation changes, User Interface (UI) enhancements, Unicode support, apache and mod-perl upgrades, and countless other behind-the-scenes tweaks and tunings to get things to where they are now.
Besides the main site, I would be remiss if I did not mention that we also have our own Wiki and an active Internet Relay Chat (IRC) community.
Most importantly, it is our community that drives us! Thank you for all the story submissions, for all the comments on those stories, and for your feedback on site improvement ideas.
[*] The original value of 200 for the number of subscribers was an estimate; the correct number was 150. Updated this story for posterity.
To those who have started or extended their subscription please accept our genuine and sincere thanks — we could NOT do it without you! -Ed.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday October 14 2015, @11:47PM
That's a good point, if you gifted a sub to someone, did they count towards that 200?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Friday October 16 2015, @11:56PM
The count of subscribers was determined by counting how many registered users had a subscription-end date that was in the future.
So in the case of gifting a subscription, so long as there was time left in their subscription, it counted. It does not matter whether the subscription was gifted to the user, or they are newly-subscribed, or they extended an existing subscription — as long as their subscription has not run out, that counts as exactly one subscriber.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday October 17 2015, @01:24AM
Thanks man : )
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