A moment to breathe

[krisomniac]

As of when I woke up this morning, the fandom_counts count had reached more than 23,500.

If you ever thought you were alone or were treated as being on the fringe, well, just know it's a big fringe out there.

And it makes me glad that something which, in actuality only affected a few members of the greater community, brought the rest of you to stand together like this. (Even if it was a little crazy *g*)

That is all.

(oh, and on the off chance you haven't seen, there is finally an official response at http://news.livejournal.com )

Comments

[erinptah]

Since it's over 31,000 now and still going, you stand a very real chance of hitting 50,000 soon, at which point the userinfo says the number of listed members will stop going up.

In that event, why not close off membership and create "fandom_counts2", to keep the body count accurate?

I'm a geek for numbers; I'd love an accurate count of fannish journals on LJ, and I'd hate for it to be limited to 50,000.

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

That's a VERY good point. :)

There are communities in place for if/when this one reaches the 50,000 mark. The catch is that opening a new community allows the possibility for people to be counted doubly, so as the new membership rates are slowing, we're going to put off opening a second one until absolutely necessary.

Thanks so much for commenting! And I totally agree about wanting an accurate count