Happy Birthday to macosxhints!
Four years ago today, macosxhints.com was born with a simple site news announcement on the evening of its first day of existence, followed by the first six hints the next evening. A look at some assorted statistics will show where we've gone in that time...
- 8,753,612 characters (1,414,124 of which were spaces!) have been typed or edited by yours truly, organized into...
- 1,332,576 separate words, which are distributed across...
- 6,276 hints! That's an average of 4.3 hints per day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. But since I usually don't post on the weekends, it's actually about 6.3 hints per work day.
- 913 of the hints are under my name; 1,305 are from anonymous tipsters. That leaves 4,058 hints that have been written by 2,501 separate authors! Our most-prolific singularly identifiable author is bluehz, with 38 hints in the system. bluehz's first hint was in November of 2001, with the most recent hint appearing just last week -- thanks, blue!
- 46,997 users have registered for free accounts.
- 45,788 total comments have been posted, or about 45 per workday. We're not Slashdot in the comment volume department, but the comments that are posted reveal the audience here to be knowledgeable, friendly, and very very bright!
- 345,752 daily page views from all of you (and another 52,712 on the forum site), totalling...
- 6.34GB of data transferred each day (plus another 2.0GB for the forums). To put that in perspective, when we first launched, a busy month was 2.0GB!
Now, help yourself to the cake and ice cream, and then get back to work!
-rob.

