news.gmane.io stats

Back in the olden days when Gmane was gmane.org, I had tons and tons of stats going… but after that meltdown, I’ve rather avoided thinking about Gmane, I guess. So I’ve definitely not had any statistics going. (For new readers, news.gmane.io is an NNTP server that’s both a mail-to-news gateway and an RSS-to-news gateway. It’s for those who hate using browsers to read stuff.) But I did start wondering lately what the numbers were — is anybody using the thing? Have the AI companies started mining it and downloading petabytes of data per day? How many articles are posted per day anyway? Then I discovered that I don’t actually have any data to work with, because I haven’t been running the programme that goes through the logs and generates stats… so I got that up and running again, and after running it for a few days (3) I have some numbers, man. (I’ve put the stats here after spending days and days on the exquisite design.) So the number of users is around 500. I don’t know whether that’s…

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