POW fic stats

I'm bored with LJ being mucked up, so I went back to Pit of Weasels for another update before I go to sleep.

Currently it has 5,074 non-adult stories (including 508 Harry Potters) down from 5,080 this morning. All stories total (including 'M' rated) is now 5609 (including 541 Harry Potters) down from 5,649 this morning. I mention the HP because someone mentioned in one of the many things I saw, that J.K. Rowling allows non-adult HP fanfic, so theoretically the 508 non-adult HP on POW are safe.

I just backtracked through life_wo_fanlib & discovered in June of 2004, Project Ferret, a collaborative Harry Potter fanfiction community, was an example of Pit of Weasel's early attempts to "harness the energy [of fans] in a way that can be controlled and moderated by the creators and distributors of that existing property."

Sometimes I'm so psychic I astound myself. They were ferrets, and now they're weasels. Particulary mentioning 'moderated by the creators', when J.K. Rowling had nothing to do with it, beyond not jumping up and down and screaming that they should stop.

POW fic stats

At noon Eastern Standard Time, POW had 5,052 sub-adult stories down from 5,074 at 1 a.m. There are 5,589 total stories down from 5,609.

Subdivided by age rating there are: 2,540 13+ stories, 2,512 all ages, 537 mature.

There are currently 2,564 members. There are 791 members with 'views' which I assume means at least that many have stories posted.

Note: On May 20th they had 5,220 sub-adult stories. People are currently removing stories slightly faster than other people are putting them on. I suspect the 500-odd gen Harry Potter fics will remain as J.K. Rowling has apparently said she doesn't mind gen HP so they are safe and POW's earlier infiltration of on-line fanfic archives included a HP archive: Project Ferret, which apparently is still viable, so they have apparently acceptance in that corner of fandom.

You are Not Alone

The current batch of complaints about posting. http://www.livejournal.com/support/help.bml?sort=date&state=&cat=entries

It's been at least 3 days. LJ told me 'we know about it and are working on it' and then my queries were closed, so you'll only see the most recent ones.

I wish LJ had a way of just reverting to the coding before things went pear-shaped and then try their new bits one at a time, with a couple days in between to see if it's buggy.

Fractal part 1 of 3

( 4 pics about 220k )

Fractal part 2 of 3

( 4 pics about 220k )

Fractal part 3 of 3

( 2 pics about 100k )

Answer to a mystery

Well, at least to me, regardless of how many other people know it. How does LJ generate the numbers on journal entries? They always get larger, but I never could figure out any other logic behind it. Someone asked support a question & got this as part of the reply:

Entry numbers are assigned in this way. For the Nth entry posted in a given journal, the entry's ID number is formed by adding n*256 to a random number between 0 and 255. This means that the first entry posted on a new account will have an ID between 256 and 511.

So if you take the entry number and divide by 256, you will get back to the entry order. If an entry URL ends livejournal.com/483.html then 483 divided by 256 is 1.89; that would be the first entry ever posted in the journal. If it ended in 641.html, 641 divided by 256 is 2.50; would be the second entry.

Cool! That's easy, divide by 256 and toss everything to the right of the decimal. I can do that. I CAN HAS A CALKUL8R.