Countdown to 1,000,000 posts

Simon Hampel

Simon Hampel

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As of right now, we are at 999,763 posts - only 237 more until we reach the magic 1 million posts.

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I thought we might help the post count along a bit so we can get there today (it already being today here in Australia - the rest of you need to catch up :p )
 

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birdsandbats said:
What does the person who makes the millionth post win? :p
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It's practically impossible to identify the millionth post.

Going by post_id (the unique identifier added to every post in the database, counting up from 1), the millionth post was actually a deleted post by @Nisha bask in 2016 which was self-deleted because it was an accidental duplicate of the previous post: Grandview Aquarium - Guangzhou

... however the post_id is incremented for every post, including those which are deleted - so that wasn't the millionth "visible" post either.

An added complication is that for many years we had gallery comments in the system as discussion threads - so every comment was literally a post as well. Even though comments are now separate, we still count them the same way.

So while it would be nice to celebrate an actual millionth post - the unfortunate reality is "it's complicated".
 
Simon Hampel said:
An added complication is that for many years we had gallery comments in the system as discussion threads - so every comment was literally a post as well. Even though comments are now separate, we still count them the same way.
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Fingers crossed those days return in time, once you've had the time and opportunity to work out a fix for that issue after the next upgrade :)
 
If we’ve got 191 left (which we now do), it’ll be sometime later today.
 
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Jambo said:
Whoops. Yes. :p Anyway, i’d still assume it to by midnight tonight (East Australian time).
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Average daily posts is between 200 and 300 most days (sometimes as high as 400), so I'm confident today is the day :D

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