Here are our stats from our 22nd month:
##Totals so far
Users: 7,161
Posts: 59,838
Comments: 857,414
Upvotes: 9,726,181
Downvotes: 224,310
Circles: 36
##May stats
New Users: 161
New Posts: 2,520
New Comments: 46,545
New Upvotes: 460,535
New Downvotes: 18,351
New Circles: 0
Site activity this month:
517 users made posts
1,225 users made comments
1,601 users voted
Site visitors:
10,747 unique IPs per day for the last week
46,304 unique IPs per week for the last month
###Past months
####2020
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####2022
I'm surprised we have so many unique IPs! That tells me that a LOT of people are lurking....
...perhaps journalists whose institutions are failing to report? People who know deep in their hearts that all of this is wrong and need a place to get their news?
This site and issue more than anything has made me hyper-critical of "the news".
I mean I have lurked since this cites start, I only recently got an account— in part due to laziness. I am sure I am not the only one
I think many laypeople are looking for answers and finding them here, it is just an extra step to make an account.
I am not surprised about the numbers of lurkers, probably a lot of men watching and its a great hub just to find links to these stories the mainstream media and too frightened to report on.