Millionth Post: Reaching 10^6

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The discussion centers around the milestone of reaching one million posts on the Physics Forums, with some confusion about the actual count and the starting point of the numbering system. Participants note discrepancies between reported post numbers and actual post counts, attributing this to deleted posts and the forum's version history. There is also a lighthearted debate about whether counting should start at zero or one, with references to programming conventions. The conversation touches on the significance of the milestone and the nature of contributions in various forum sections, particularly the Homework Help forums. Overall, the thread celebrates the community's growth while highlighting the quirks of post counting.
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By the current reckoning of post numbers...
we are at about 1 million... I mean 10^6.

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Yeah I missed the 3 at the end there and quickly edited
 
PF stats says,
Threads: 98,235
Posts: 915,919

Not quite yet a million :)

anyway, how many servers does Greg use to keep a database that big?
 
Wow! One million posts! Congrats to all at PF. I'm just ashamed that the one millionth post didn't display much physics. It does show though how many people don't actually show their work in the Homework Help forums (which is something that really annoys me but that's a story for another thread).

One million posts, I haven't been here that long, how long has it taken?

robphy said:
...unless we started counting at zero.

Well, in my opinion it would be pretty illogical if we did start counting at zero :-p

~H
 
Hootenanny said:
Well, in my opinion it would be pretty illogical if we did start counting at zero :-p

~H

Tell that to a C++ programmer :biggrin: .
Maybe the posts are "indexed" starting from zero.

I did notice that deleting a post doesn't free up the number that it occupied. That might account for the difference between the "number of posts" (reported in heartless's post) and the "post number".
 
robphy said:
Tell that to a C++ programmer :biggrin: .
Maybe the posts are "indexed" starting from zero.

Zero is defined as an empty set, therefore if the number of posts was zero, the set would be empty - no posts. I am not a programmer (I do dable occassionally, but I would not profess to be anything other than an amateur. :biggrin:

~H
 
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Mk, we're counting posts not threads. And I think the post count gets reset with every new version, so this is just the total postcount for the latest version (V3?).

Also, the discrepancy between the postcount stats and the postcounts in the URL is probably from posts in the Mentors' Forum.
 
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Also, if I'm not mistaken, the 5th birthday of PF v1 is coming up in about a month.
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Also, the discrepancy between the postcount stats and the postcounts in the URL is probably from posts in the Mentors' Forum.
Deleted posts might factor in as well
 
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hahaha..half of that 1,000,000 posts were wasted in GD...
 
  • #14
hey, look at post #10,000...a very valuble post to PF
 
  • #15
yomamma said:
hahaha..half of that 1,000,000 posts were wasted in GD...
Half of which are probably yours.
 
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Wow, a blast from the past.

And all this time I thought GD was created for me. :frown:
 
  • #18
Evo said:
And all this time I thought GD was created for me. :frown:
I thought it was created for yomamma.
 
  • #19
Another thread on ID and creationist?:bugeye:
 
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Lisa! said:
Another thread on ID and creationist?:bugeye:
Translation:
TKC VII!
 
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Lisa! said:
I wonder what smilies were these
:smile: ?
most of been before similes came to PF. Which means probally somtime before laTex
 
  • #25
Greg Bernhardt said:
We'd be at 1,200,000 if we didn't wipe PF1 anf PF2
I saw the internet archive for PF1 is there one for PF2?
 
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scott1 said:
I saw the internet archive for PF1 is there one for PF2?

I have it on CD, I might upload it someday for fun
 
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scott1 said:
I saw the internet archive for PF1 is there one for PF2?
Well here's PF1("Snitz 2k"): http://web.archive.org/web/20010306054610/https://www.physicsforums.com/

I guess this is PF3 (vBulletin)since the 0th thread was before this date: http://web.archive.org/web/20030319105455/https://www.physicsforums.com/

So it would make sense for this to be PF2:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030220025246/https://www.physicsforums.com/

Although that looks just like PF1.

I'm confused now. Is PF2 just vBulletin 2.x and PF3 vBulletin 3.x? In that case why does FZ+ say it's PF3 if it's clearly vBulletin 2.x?
Gokul43201 said:
Also, if I'm not mistaken, the 5th birthday of PF v1 is coming up in about a month.
Yep you're mistaken ;)

According to archive.org Greg joined PF1 on 12/24/2000
 
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Wow it's scaring seeing PF2 with Theory Devolpment(I had no idea it went that far back)

Megashawn looks like he should be held responbile for the death of PF2.(10^6 to his thread killer points for that.)
Where's TKC?
I wonder what ever happened to FZ(+)
 
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more than that
 
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yomamma said:
more than that
ok 10^9 points to be a thread killer.
 

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