Earlier today it looked like this (some drafts have since then been published)

Summary: With our thirteenth anniversary just a few months away we're at a pace of about 2,000 posts per year

TODAY or this weekend is the first time, after months of tidying up, that we properly attempt to increase pace of publication, mostly at the expense of politics and also by improving efficiencies at the back end. Today we pass another important milestone: 25,500. Just the WordPress side of things is shown above. There's more outside it (tens of thousands more objects).

There are now more volunteers (writers and technical people) involved, which will hopefully improve our capacity to produce good stories and daily links. Following last night's request for suggestions we've already received some constructive feedback as well. To a lot of people the site means a lot and this past week too we've received nearly 5 million hits, close to an all-time high. It goes up and down, depending on how much we publish and the relative impact of new stories. ⬆