DU is rapidly approaching 70 million posts!

[Snarkoleptic]

Thanks to Skinner, EarlG, Elad, MIRT, Forum Hosts and all you durty librul hippies for making DU so enjoyable!

[uppityperson]

1. This OP was 1018813687

Right? Or is there another place listing the numbers? That is the thread address.

[Snarkoleptic]

2. On the homepage you will see "227,639 user registrations and 69,995,218 posts since 2001"

and counting, so it's almost time to uncork some champagne!

[uppityperson]

3. Thank you, I forgot about that

[Snarkoleptic]

4. I'm sort of geeked-up at the thought of DU passing this milestone!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I guess the Primary Wars are good for something!

[Aerows]

6. I'm pretty sure

that at least 9% of them were about people eating chicken while nursing a smoking pitbull in Olive Garden in an attempt to evade a drone.

[lovemydog]

28. A tiny percentage

were about smoking a pit bull in Olive Garden droning on their phone while eating a nurse or choking a chicken.

[pinboy3niner]

7. I'm trying to cut back, I swear

[sakabatou]

8. Which means we've averaged, if we add it all up and divide by how long DU's been online...

almost 4.7 million posts per year! WOW!

[pinboy3niner]

9. But enough about CalforniaPeggy

[sakabatou]

10. XD

[Snarkoleptic]

11. Time to update the tote board...

227,651 user registrations and 69,997,226 posts since 2001.

[pinboy3niner]

12. There should be a prize for the 70 millionth post

But CaliforniaPeggy has it cinched, so the rest of us don't have a chance.

[Snarkoleptic]

13. Here are some fun snapshots in time from other posts---

14,492,371 posts since January 2001 --Tue Apr-05-05
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2991125

61,085,368 posts since 2001 -- Thu Jan 17, 2013
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022210787

[davidpdx]

14. 2,538 to go

[davidpdx]

15. 7:33 am PST on 11/11/2015, 1,520 posts go go

The better question is when will DU break 75 million posts? I would think it will be well before the election next year. Maybe by the time of the Republican Convention.

[L. Coyote]

22. Wow

About 10,000 of them are "Wow"

[Helen Borg]

17. Estimating 10 minute per post on average...

That is over 1300 years collectively, spent posting nonstop on DU.

[ornotna]

18. 227,658 user registrations and 70,002,337 posts since 2001

Seems we made the mark.

[elleng]

19. We MADE it!!!

[cprise]

20. 40M posts about 'OMG! Look at what RW Asshat said!!!'

Here is the link!

Yeah, DU is probably one of the biggest influences in raising the search rankings of RW sites. Its one of the reasons why I do NOT consider posting here to be preaching to the choir.

Many DUers are emotionally hooked on RW memes and personalities, and would rather die choking on RW memes they "hate" rather than internalize and support leftist ones.

[Ptah]

24. It is not that way here in the DU Lounge.

[L. Coyote]

21. 227,665 user registrations and 70,004,407 posts since 2001

and counting

[Mnpaul]

23. and the site seems to be loading faster lately

even the long threads.

[valerief]

25. If each post was a dollar, that'd be like 2 years pay for a multinational CEO.

And it took DU 14 years.

Just pointing out how much the assholes get paid.

[kentauros]

26. When that happens, do we all get free beer?

[In_The_Wind]

31. Or fish

[MasonDreams]

29. Here's one more. Thanks to DU all admin.& participators!!!

[Duval]

34. Here is another one!!

[secondwind]

30. Holy crap! this is awesome! :-)

[kwassa]

32. Were 69 million about Bernie Sanders?

just joking, folks, just joking ......

[Renew Deal]

35. Here is the breakdown

10m: 2008 primary
5m: 2004 primary
5m: I hate PETA
10m: all other elections
3m: smoking
2m: Breastfeeding at Olive Garden
2m: pit bulls
5m: pit bulls smoking while breast feeding
2m: circumcision
5m: whining about moderators and juries
3m: Mod, MIRT, host chat
3m: Guns
2m: I/P
2m: 9/11
The rest: everything else

[flying_wahini]

33. Already?

[Kennah]

36. Wake me when we get to 70 million DUzys n/t