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[theweaselking]

In the Livejournal Post Numbering Scheme, I just broke 3,000,000.

It only took me 11,703 posts do to it!

What's your excuse?

Comments

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Holy Jesus. You stay busy!

My stats:

Date created: 2003-07-08 14:28:02
Date updated: 2008-08-01 21:13:11, 2 hours ago
Journal entries: 1,313
Comments: Posted: 7,079 - Received: 9,856

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Date created: 2004-04-14 21:15:58
Journal entries: 11,704
Comments: Posted: 16,358 - Received: 51,694

This thing really is my brain dump for all the wacky stuff a newsjunkie can find online.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Date created: 2002-01-02 21:42:12
Journal entries: 1,717
Comments: Posted: 10,429 - Received: 11,320

Conclusion: Their numbering system is weird.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

300654, bitch!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, as people have pointed out to me, I had the dumb last night, and dropped a zero.

I broke three *milllion*.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

300,000? Check again.

[hypatiasghost.livejournal.com]

Indeed. 3,000,340 is more like it. :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's not exactly 300,000.

I *broke* 300K.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I'm not getting it.

Date created: 2004-03-12 06:09:53
Date updated: 2008-08-01 00:56:53, 1 day ago

Journal entries: 3,573
Comments: Posted: 7,947 - Received: 3,250

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Look at the URL of your most recent entry.

The numbers in the URL are always going up. There's a formula.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Damn it!

Am only at 923k.

I suck.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Not that it makes any discernible sense.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Again... no, you didn't. Look again. Or rather, yes, you did, but one long-ass time ago.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Here is where you broke 300,000.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yikes. My brain? She is slow.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

444557 with my bad self.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Date created: 2003-04-06 01:03:10
Date updated: 2008-08-01 23:14:58, 1 hour ago
Journal entries: 2,529
Comments: Posted: 23,511 - Received: 22,605

I am not of the number

[frith]

The number in the address bar, as noted by others above, is 3,000,340, not 300,340. What is that number? a word count?

My last post is garnished with a 91225. My excuse: I type really slowly and aspire to no more than one post per day.

Re: I am not of the number

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's not a word count. There's a formula around somewhere, but it basically increments the previous one with a random number that has an upper and lower bound.

I don't know *why*, either.

Re: I am not of the number

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

Because nonsense numerical tracking schemes make all programmers happy? :S

Re: I am not of the number

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

I'm not of the number either, but I'm not sure if I care, and don't know where I'd find the number anyway.

Re: I am not of the number

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The URL of the direct link to your latest post.

Your post URL:
http://paoconnell.livejournal.com/24294.html?style=mine

Your number: 24294

It goes up with your number of posts. Just not linearly.

Re: I am not of the number

[matgb]

The number is post # * 256 + a random increment, so John is incorrect as he's actually made 11720 posts, the display on the profile is visible undeleted posts, not all posts, any duplicates or whatever get a different url.

Other software uses increments of 1, like Wordpress, but that's very obvious and makes deletions very visible, LJs obfuscation means that most people don't even bother looking, although at least one person I know once hacked her friends page to display the post number.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm at 320k (http://glitteringlynx.livejournal.com/320028.html). Give me time, I'll get there. :)

Date created: 2006-02-26 09:00:40
Date updated: 2008-08-01 16:43:18, 1 day ago
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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Last post is no. 619522.

Date created: 2002-01-10 12:24:51
Journal entries: 2,269
Comments: Posted: 18,580 - Received: 19,716

Your number of entries is 5.16 times mine, and your .html number is 4.84 times. So it's not too far, but it's not linear. Strange.

[matgb]

The multiplier is 256, but it'll count any deleted posts as well, so you can only work it backwards-the profile count doesn't display deleted posts. Divide the number in the url by 256 and you get the number + a random bit.