We'll Soon Have 75,000 GemText Pages
On an average day we serve about 70,000 gemini:// requests
The Tux Machines platform is approaching 40,000 Gemini pages, but what about this one? I've decided to check how many objects we have, including directories and text files (such as bulletins):
find /home/gemini/techrights.org/* | wc -l 143793
Filtered only for GemText (.gmi) files, we have 73,235 in total. We add about 30 new ones per day (IRC logs and articles), so some time before year's end we'll reach 75,000.
Lupa, a Geminispace crawler, limits itself to indexing no more than 10,000 objects per capsule and its latest statistics (updated an hour ago) say: "There are 4693 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3171 of them."
3,100 for the latter figure happened just over a month ago. Back then there were 201 fewer known capsules, so the rate of expansion seems good. The numbers rise rapidly and yesterday we saw it at over 4,700 (it fluctuates).
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