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I was asked a couple Lobsters stats questions and wanted to paste the answers both because there was some detail and because I might as well share the numbers with more than just the submitter. The policy is that I'm happy to answer questions or run queries as long as they don't create a lot of work for me or a worst-of list.

schema if you want to write queries: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/db/schema.rb

https://lobste.rs/s/cqnzl5/lobste_rs_access_pattern_statistics_for might be interesting for some recent stats

1. roughly how many people visit each day/month

Weekdays I see typically 12-15k unique IPs, so probably a a few more visitors than that to account for shared wifi like coffeshops and coworkers. I think weekends are around half that. I haven't kept a close eye on this because it wouldn't have changed any decision I've made (https://push.cx/2015/will-knowledge-change-a-decision-you-make).

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+-----------+-----------+
| n_hidings | n_stories |
+-----------+-----------+
|         0 |     19866 |
|         1 |     13070 |
|         2 |      5728 |
|         3 |      1992 |
|         4 |       797 |
|         5 |       384 |
|         6 |       205 |

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2017-10-25: this few open items of this checklist has been migrated to issues on the ansible repo for better visibility and tracking. This gist is left up in the hopes it's useful for anyone setting up their own site using the lobsters codebase.

Prep

• announce migration + privacy on twitter
• Lobsters post: this checklist, privacy deadline, migration date
• post this plan to lobsters
• transfer lobste.rs registration to pushcx
• transfer @lobsters twitter account to pushcx

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I've had a 100% positive response rate sending this to people who see Lobsters as a good place to dump content marketing. Please feel free to take it and use it to help guide people to good behavior.

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Hey folks,

I’ve liked the articles you’ve written and submitted to Lobsters, thanks for sharing good posts.

A good rule of thumb is that at most half of your submissions and comments should be on your own stuff. Otherwise folks will take your participation as one-way exploitation and start flagging all your stories as spam. Hope this helps, and I look forward to seeing you around the site.

pushcx

require 'binding_of_caller'

# https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/875037876215357440

class ReallyParticularInsantiation
  def initialize
    b = binding.of_caller(1)
    # could also b.eval to get at __FILE__ and __LINENO__
    if b.eval('self.class') != Foo or b.eval('__method__') != :try
      raise RuntimeError, "I don't even know what to call this coupling"

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" highlight textwidth column in insert mode
highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=0*
function! HighlightOn()
  if &textwidth > 0
    " the +1 feature in the 'colorcolumn' docs doesn't work for me
    let &colorcolumn=&textwidth + 1
  else
    let &colorcolumn=""
  endif
endfunction

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Transaction = Struct.new(:amount, :parent)

t1 = Transaction.new 1, nil
t2 = Transaction.new 2, t1
t3 = Transaction.new 4, t2
t4 = Transaction.new 8, nil

TransactionEnumerator = Struct.new(:ary) do
  include Enumerable

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source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'activerecord'
gem 'anima'
gem 'sqlite3'
gem 'transproc'
gem 'virtus'

gem 'benchmark-ips'

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entity = Node.new(id: id)

case
  when not enity.exists? then fail("Entity doesn't exist")
  when not entity.file? then fail("Entity wasn't a file")
  when not entity.writable? then fail("Entity wasn't writable")
  else entity.write(data)
end

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location ~ ^/(wp-admin|wp-login\.php|priv\.dog|companies\/sidekick) {
  deny all;
  break;
}
# file extensions that should never be served, this prevents
# potential malicious downloads in case someone manages to manipulate
# a Rails URL or write a file that can be served
# (~* matches case-insensitive)
location ~* \.(?:git|svn|DS_Store|asp|aspx|cgi|pt|pl|idx|php|exe|scpt|AppleScript|dll|dmg|pif|msi|application|msp|com|scr|hta|cpl|gadget|msc|jar|bat|vb|vbs|vbe|ws|wsh|inf|lnk|reg|scf|wsc|wsh|ps1|ps1xml|ps2|ps2xml|psc1|psc2|msh|msh1|msh2|mshxml|msh1xml|msh2xml)$ {
  deny all;