We are approaching 100,000 posts on the forum, as this is post 99,881, and so I was thinking, his far has thus place come in the last 11 and a half or so years?
PS: There will of course be the ability to boast about it on this forum if one wants. To put it in perspective, the 99,000th post was by GuyBarry less than 3 and a half weeks (23 days) ago, on Saturday 4th at 10:22:51.
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Where do you get the number of posts from? The stat at the bottom pof the front page of the forums gives a number in the 94 thousands.
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DrainBrain wrote:I think the number is being taken from the URL.
Yes - the URL goes up by one for each post made, even if it's subsequently deleted. I think the post counter on the home page only counts undeleted posts.
Which means, if I calculate correctly, that 5124 posts have been deleted since this forum was set up, or something like 5% of the total. Seems quite a high proportion.
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tubeguru wrote:Also, I have deleted so many posts in the last 11 or so years that we went over 100,000 actual posts ages ago.
Is that right? I thought each post got its own unique number, even if it was subsequently deleted. Certainly that's what happens if I delete one of my own posts - the next post gets the next number in sequence.
EDIT: As an illustration, I deleted this post and reposted it. The number has changed from 99907 to 99908.
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Out of curiosity, the posters of every 10,000th post are:
10,000: Starkey (a haiku from a 2006 Bottle Challenge)
20,000: Tubeguru (a review of GTA IV)
30,000: Palkanetoijala31 (answering a question about one of his FNC routes)
40,000: Going Underground (discussing an R15 twist)
50,000: Geofftech (sharing two interchange tips, both of which are now quite well known)
60,000: Iain (commenting on a 2012 FNC attempt)
70,000: Tractakid (a Google Street View Treasure Hunt post - wow, that takes me back)
80,000: Soup Dragon (talking about an appearance on TV)
90,000: Iain (again!! Posting something in The Snake thread)
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The Orange One wrote:Out of curiosity, the posters of every 10,000th post are:
10,000: Starkey (a haiku from a 2006 Bottle Challenge)
20,000: Tubeguru (a review of GTA IV)
30,000: Palkanetoijala31 (answering a question about one of his FNC routes)
40,000: Going Underground (discussing an R15 twist)
50,000: Geofftech (sharing two interchange tips, both of which are now quite well known)
60,000: Iain (commenting on a 2012 FNC attempt)
70,000: Tractakid (a Google Street View Treasure Hunt post - wow, that takes me back)
80,000: Soup Dragon (talking about an appearance on TV)
90,000: Iain (again!! Posting something in The Snake thread)
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