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    Happy New Year, Lobsters ☶ announce
    jcs avatar authored by jcs 9 years ago | 10 comments

It’s 2016 somewhere, so Happy New Year. Here’s a look back at the arbitrarily-demarcated 2015 year on Lobsters:

In 2015, we gained 1,273 new users.

There were 6,859 stories submitted, with the most common tag being programming (used on 1,382 stories).

The top 5 most frequent (non-moderator) submitters of stories in 2015:

The most upvoted (non-meta) story in 2015 was What Happens Next Will Amaze You with a score of 95.

The top 5 most frequent commenters in 2015:

The most upvoted comment in 2015 was this by codahale.

There were 186 git commits to the code that runs the site. There were many features added.

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      alynpost avatar alynpost edited 9 years ago

      Happy New Year everyone. It’s been nice spending time with some of you on #lobsters (see the Chat link at the bottom of the page), including a few names from the top submitter and commenter lists. In addition to the announcements above, this year also saw the introduction of mockturtle, the #lobsters channel bot which reports every story submitted to lobste.rs via IRC. I’ve enjoyed monitoring the website this way, and @journeysquid, @flyingfisch and I really appreciate @pushcx’s tireless effort in finding stories for us.

      @jcs, I’m a tad behind, but I’ll get your commit log reporting to the channel before this time next year. ::smiles::

      Thank you everyone for making lobste.rs a nice place to hang out and mingle.

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        GeoffWozniak avatar GeoffWozniak 9 years ago

        Thank you everyone for making lobste.rs a nice place to hang out and mingle.

        Indeed. This is my favourite place on the web right now. I hope it stays that way in 2016.

        And it’s my favourite because there is civil disagreement in the comments. The stories are a decent intersection of what you find on places like HN, but the common subset isn’t too large. The conversation is much saner.

        Thanks lobste.rs, for making me like forums again.

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          journeysquid avatar journeysquid 9 years ago

          I’ve enjoyed monitoring the website this way, and @journeysquid, @flyingfisch and I really appreciate @pushcx’s tireless effort in finding stories for us.

          I think you may have copy-pasted incorrectly.

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          av avatar av 9 years ago

          Woot, I am in the top 5 submitters! Very happy to contribute to this amazing community.

          Happy New Year folks!

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            corbyhaas avatar corbyhaas 9 years ago

            I’m really happy that these numbers confirm what I’ve been thinking of lobsters, and a reason a like it: it moves a little slower than the rest of the web. I’ve been finding most of the internet to be too frantic for over a year, to the point that it’s difficult to stomache even a Google search. Here, even the busiest posters aren’t averaging more than 1-2 comments per day. This feels like it’s just a laid back place for intelligent people

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              journeysquid avatar journeysquid 9 years ago

              So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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                FRIGN avatar FRIGN 9 years ago

                Thanks, you too guys! I hope you find inspiration and knowledge in the upcoming year.

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                  L8D avatar L8D 9 years ago

                  What about the post(s) with the most comments?

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                    jcs avatar jcs 9 years ago

                    Behind 3 ‘what are you working on’ ones, this story.

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                    james avatar james 9 years ago

                    I’m really appreciative of lobste.rs both for the content, and the people. I feel like this is a community where I can understand and appreciate the current state of technology even if I’m now distant from much of it. I feel stretched and challenged by the people here, but this is also feels a safe and reasonable community to be in.

                    Thanks @jcs and all, have a great next arbitrary time period.

                  🇬🇧 The UK geoblock is lifted, hopefully permanently.