# Total number of SDMB posts since the beginning? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 6, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022 "2021-10-06T20:35:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/1 "2021-10-06T20:35:55Z")
Does anyone know where I can find out this information? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/2 "2021-10-06T20:38:58Z")
A database admin would have to run a ridiculously simple SQL query to determine this, but I’m afraid we have no admin at the time posting. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/3 "2021-10-06T20:40:02Z")
Are there any recent counts to get an idea? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/4 "2021-10-06T20:47:35Z")
I might be able to get the answer, but using the reports it will take a bit I think. (if it doesn’t just time out). OK, I can get reports a year at a time it looks like. Give me a little bit and I’ll generate a rough answer. Too big a range and the report fails. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/5 "2021-10-06T20:47:57Z")
Isn’t it on the about page? 23.2M Posts. All-time. [https://boards.straightdope.com/about](https://boards.straightdope.com/about) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/6 "2021-10-06T20:51:16Z")
Good find 👍. I’ve expected the number to be higher. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/7 "2021-10-06T20:52:15Z")
Did all of our threads survive the transition to Discourse? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/8 "2021-10-06T20:53:10Z")
I think they did, but we lost some a long time ago and we lost some user records along the way. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/9 "2021-10-06T20:54:58Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Did all of our threads survive the transition to Discourse? I don’t know all the inner workings, but I think so. If you transfer the whole database, then all entries have to be transferred. Otherwise, this site would be a mess now. OTOH, there was the winter of our missed content, a legendary incident from before my days here on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/10 "2021-10-06T20:58:01Z")
Is that number somewhat up to date, and does it include any previous versions, like AOL? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/11 "2021-10-06T20:58:43Z")
I don’t think it includes AOL. I only see 154,000 posts in 1999. That was the transition year right? ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/12 "2021-10-06T21:02:47Z")
The [Count to a Million](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653/5474) thread has a real chance! Nice to know. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/13 "2021-10-06T21:12:40Z")
It’s actually higher than one would think given the current post count. The current post count per week is 10.5K. That’s 546K per year. 546K times 20 years is only 10.9 million. In order for the number to be 23 million, some of those years had to be significantly higher than the current posting rate. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/14 "2021-10-06T21:12:41Z")
So the number I get is a little lower. But I’m not sure how the report rounds and if there are possible posts without dates. From 1999 to Current I get **22,895,000** posts. The difference might be AOL posts that didn’t come over cleanly or just bad rounding on the reports. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/15 "2021-10-06T21:42:05Z")
For my own statistics I only count _quality_ posts, which for me is around 97% of total (overall it is right around 62%). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/16 "2021-10-06T21:59:21Z")
What does the row “Users” mean? Users 7 32 114 131k Seven in the last 24 hours? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/17 "2021-10-06T22:03:44Z")
According to the column headers, yes. **Last 24 hours . . . Last 7 days . . . Last 30 days . . . All Time** I can tell you that there were 5 socks & more than 2 spammers I know of in the last 24hrs. So I’m not sure what the 7 actually means in this case. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/18 "2021-10-06T22:17:27Z")
According to **codinghorror** , users is new users. > [@](#): > > btw users is NEW users > [@Why is the SDMB membership declining, and what's the best way to add younger members?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sdmb-membership-declining-and-whats-the-best-way-to-add-younger-members/944208/541): > > I find Reddit’s format truly exhausting, the many-headed hydra of threaded discussions going in every direction at once. It’s very difficult to keep a reasonable discussion going there, except for the rare heavily modded subreddits. Everything is constantly pouring down the Reddit page via the overwhelming weight of time. It’s so bad that many subreddits post a “discussion topic of the day” thread and pin it. We have an existing business relationship with Snopes. Can’t hurt to ask them… Th… Here’s a report of trends on new signups and new contributors for the year from **ecg** on July 9 > [@Why is the SDMB membership declining, and what's the best way to add younger members?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sdmb-membership-declining-and-whats-the-best-way-to-add-younger-members/944208/534): > > [[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/oHkfERz.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/19 "2021-10-07T13:06:34Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I can tell you that there were 5 socks & more than 2 spammers I know of in the last 24hrs. Spammers, sure, but five socks in 24 hours? Dang. You guys are certainly kept busy. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022/20 "2021-10-07T14:37:09Z")
I can tell you that, since March, there have been 126 threads with no response to the OP. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-sdmb-posts-since-the-beginning/952022.md?page=2)