50000 posts??? Wow!!!

By jakeg on 18 Feb 2006 at 09:01 UTC

Just a massive thanks to Dries and all other developers for bringing Drupal.org so far. There are 50000 posts on this site now. That's huge. I remember when I made the 33333th post. So many, so quickly.

Lets just hope 4.7 comes out soon! I can't wait.

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We'll pass the 50,000 user point in the next day or two as well.

robertdouglass commented 18 February 2006 at 09:14

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but

kae commented 20 February 2006 at 19:46

while drupal's growth is exciting, there is a negative aspect to this growth. which is that the same questions are posted over and over again. hopefully the new 4.7 search will help with this, or this exponential growth in nodes will hurt us more than it helps as finding the right answer turns into looking for a needle in a haystack.

33333th node not mine, also approaching 50000 users

jakeg commented 18 February 2006 at 09:15

My error, I wrote the first reply to the 33333th node (an issue), rather than writing the node itself.

Also, bizarrely we're now rapidly approaching our 50,000th user too. That means on (mean) average each user has 1 post... though of course a lot of users have a lot of posts, and a lot of users never post at all.

... or a lot of users only

Bèr Kessels commented 18 February 2006 at 09:52

... or a lot of users only have comments.

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You could check how many

Cvbge commented 18 February 2006 at 18:56

You could check how many users never logged in?

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Early

freyquency commented 18 February 2006 at 14:20

Greggles was guessing this would happen March 20th ( http://drupal.org/node/49230 ) -- that's over a month early. Crazy!

Comment 100,000

veridicus commented 18 February 2006 at 17:39

And I had postulated that node 50,000 was likely to have comment 100,000. Alas I was far off as well.
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Growth

dries commented 18 February 2006 at 17:46

The growth of the Drupal community is the result of all the people who contribute to Drupal. We're currently working on upgrading Drupal.org to Drupal 4.7.0 beta 4 and will be rolling out a number of Drupal.org improvements at the same time. More about that later!

Maintaining and improving a site like drupal.org takes a lot of time and energy. If you want to help out, subscribe to the infrastructure mailing list.

make sure you enable users

jakeg commented 18 February 2006 at 17:59

make sure you enable users to change passwords on drupal.org - beta4 has a bug which doesn't allow this (at least in php5).

Exponential growth: Dries' First Law

kbahey commented 18 February 2006 at 21:18

To quote Dries from the Drupal Roadmap at DrupalCON Feb 9:

Let us call that, Dries' First Law:

With every new release of Drupal, the number of nodes on drupal.org doubles.

Dries' Second Law is:

With every new release of Drupal, the number of users on drupal.org doubles.

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Observation, prediction, law

dries commented 18 February 2006 at 22:06

I wouldn't say it is a law. ;) It is more of an observation and a short term prediction. One day, we'll grow less fast (and that's perfectly OK).

Yes

kbahey commented 19 February 2006 at 02:09

Yes, it is an observation or prediction.

But it is a law in the same sense of Moore's Law about transistor count in processors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

One day this will be false too, whether it is because of physical laws, or Quantum computing.
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Disk space?

carl ditzler commented 19 February 2006 at 01:39

Roughly, how much capacity do the 50000 nodes take?

size?

szczym commented 20 February 2006 at 16:38

And how big the whole database is ?

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I'd like to know the answers about disk space and database size

ckclarke commented 23 February 2006 at 18:11

...too. Can someone give us some numbers? The site I'm currently developing has the potential to become pretty big pretty fast, so I'd like to know what I'm in for!

Disk is cheap

kbahey commented 24 February 2006 at 04:19

Disk is cheap, that is, if your content is text only, and you do not have a lot of images, or videos and the like.

When a site grows in terms of visitors, you will run into other issues before disk space becomes a problem. Bandwidth may be one, but probably, it is CPU and memory usage that will be the issue, specially if you are on shared hosting.

Hosting companies keep promoting their packages based on disk space and such, much like Intel promoted their CPUs based on clock speed alone, or as cars were marketed by horsepower alone.

This emphasis on one aspect only, often not really important, is misleading and distracts from other important ones.

In case it helps, a 600 node site takes only 86 MB, and the largest tables are accesslog, cache, sessions, and search_index, followed by node. If you get lots of 404s, watchdog will grow as well.

I can cut down on accesslog if I chose to keep only a few days, and not weeks. Search_index is unavoidable (unless the search module is not enabled), so are cahce and sessions.
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exponential growth

pembeci commented 19 February 2006 at 18:55

I just tried to enter some node ids and record their date. The ones before 500, give access denied or they were book pages without dates. So here is what I found, may be someone can create a graph out of it:

10000 new nodes in the last ~75 days!!! Wow that's a bit scary.

Of course, someone with access to drupal.org's database can get better values, like node ids every 3 months and depict a nice graph.

using the data above

holz commented 22 February 2006 at 02:47

I have made a graph.

check it out flickr

great but

pembeci commented 22 February 2006 at 06:04

broken link :(

working one

szczym commented 22 February 2006 at 08:35

http://static.flickr.com/19/102847379_1880f89fde.jpg?v=0

Could you predict in that graf the estimate size for one and two years forward?

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Nice graph!

Walt Esquivel commented 22 February 2006 at 15:43

I like your graph.

What did you use to create it?

Thank you in advance.

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grapher

holz commented 26 February 2006 at 10:04

I use Golden Software Grapher 6 Demo to create that graph.

and then use PrintScreen key to capture the screen, Mspaint to save it.

predict

holz commented 26 February 2006 at 10:55

http://static.flickr.com/41/104577631_58154cb953.jpg?v=0

Using the Grapher fitting system, I found it that growth is exponential, so I draw a red estimate curve using fit.

In that way, it shows me that Drupal.org will grows to about 110000 nodes this year.

unbelieve it!

Hasn't been exponential for

sime

any/any

Melbourne

commented 22 June 2006 at 13:56

Hasn't been exponential for the last 4 months. (ie. this year will be maybe 70000? Still a lot, of course. Looks like it will be 30,000 to the half-year)

But there is so much non-node activity in the Drupal community that this sort of analysis is flawed.

groups.drupal.org

robertdouglass commented 22 June 2006 at 15:47

The groups site is taking some of the traffic. Furthermore, since the advent of planet drupal, lots of people who would have posted here about something are posting on their own blog.

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With less than 6 weeks left

styro commented 22 November 2006 at 23:00

drupal.org is rapidly approaching 100 000 nodes - at this rate it looks like there will be 110 000 nodes before the end of the year. Wow.

The extra interest generated by the release of Drupal 5.0 soon could well mean that the exponential trend continues for the next year too :)

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Close call

pembeci commented 16 May 2008 at 23:45

It was on January 16, 2007.

good timing!

matthew-at-matthewtaylorphotography.com commented 20 February 2006 at 19:42

How long did you sit at your computer, on a Saturday morning, waiting for node 49999 to pop up?

Some poor geezer jumped in

jakeg commented 20 February 2006 at 20:10

Some poor geezer jumped in and said "50000th post mine!" but jumped the gun a tad and actually got 49997... haha. So I just waited 5 minutes until the other two were posted ('F5' drupal.org/node/49999 until no longer 'not found) then decided to launch myself into geeky-sad-too-much-time-for-own-good notoriety by hitting a submit button on my pre-prepared forum topic.

Saturday mornings are fun.

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At obin we head fun also

szczym commented 21 February 2006 at 21:02

Our Sunday was fun too, in Saturday we head birthday party of obin and in Sunday we have published the translated version of "whole" website ;)

It was our birthday present for the organization, till then the site was only in Polish

cheers !
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This is soooooo funny!

Walt Esquivel commented 21 February 2006 at 22:38

Some poor geezer jumped in and said "50000th post mine!" but jumped the gun a tad and actually got 49997... haha.

That is hilarious!!! Your comment is one of the funniest I've read in a while! :)

Thanks for the good laugh!

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Which version of Drupal is running here?

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 23 February 2006 at 11:53

Sorry for this stupid question, but I'm curious. Which version of Drupal is running here, at the Drupal.org?

Drupal.org is running an

sepeck commented 23 February 2006 at 18:36

Drupal.org is running an early cycle stable CVS version from several months ago. It is not yet on the current CVS release. The current is only now approaching the stability needed to consider it.

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Great!

ruturajv commented 8 March 2006 at 07:33

That is absolutely amazing, more than 50000 entries by developers, promoters, fans for a website portal
That is cool!
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