It's 2016 somewhere, so Happy New Year. Here's a look back at the arbitrarily-demarcated 2015 year on Lobsters:
In 2015, we gained 1,273 new users.
There were 6,859 stories submitted,
with the most common tag being [programming](/t/programming) (used on 1,382 stories).
The top 5 most fre...
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It's 2016 somewhere, so Happy New Year. Here's a look back at the arbitrarily-demarcated 2015 year on Lobsters:
In 2015, we gained 1,273 new users.
There were 6,859 stories submitted,
with the most common tag being [programming](/t/programming) (used on 1,382 stories).
The top 5 most fre...
In one year since Lobsters launched:
- 1,030 [users](https://lobste.rs/u/) have been invited and signed up,
- 2,516 [stories](https://lobste.rs/newest) have been submitted,
- 2,706 [comments](https://lobste.rs/comments) have been posted, and
- 346 [commits](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/comm...
Happy New Year, Lobsterman...
As requested, here is a 2016 recap like I did for [2015](https://lobste.rs/s/cy0oks/happy_new_year_lobsters).
In 2016, we gained 1,345 new users, up from 1,273 in 2015.
There were 9,686 stories submitted (way up from 6,859 in 2015),
with the most common tag again being [programming](/t/progr...
Lobsters was [launched](https://twitter.com/jcs/status/220334061418323968) on this day 5 years ago. 7600 users, 32,000 stories, and 89,000 comments later, thanks to everyone that has made it the engaging community that it is today.
Hey folks,
Here's the yearly stats ([2016](https://lobste.rs/s/cy0oks/happy_new_year_lobsters), [2017](https://lobste.rs/s/xmqlqm/happy_2017_lobsters)) for Lobsters.
In 2017 we gained 2,227 new friends, up from 1,345 last year.
There were 12,191 stories submitted, a 25% increase from last y...
(Yep, posting a lobsters post back on lobsters...)
In case you didn't know about it, you can get new stories and their comments sent to you via email, and can reply to add comments. Just discovered this functionality while in my profile settings, and it's life changing. Don't know how I overlooke...
### What?
Today is the first of May, [International Workers' Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day).
### When?
On May 1, 1886 thousands of workers in Chicago [struck and protested](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair) about having an eight hour workday. ...
Hey folks,
Today is the 7th anniversary of the site's launch!
It's all thanks to our community of 11,000 users who submitted 55,000 stories,
wrote 194,000 comments,
and upvoted 1,262,000 times.
(And we've had 108 authors share 1,800 commits to our [codebase](https://github.com/lobsters/lobste...
Hey folks,
Today marks [8 years](https://twitter.com/jcs/status/220334061418323968) since Lobsters launched.
In that time our community of 13,021 users
have submitted 67,635 stories,
written 264,483 comments,
and cast 1,753,579 votes.
Those numbers have gotten pretty big over time, so a...
2020 was my first year on Lobster. Overall impressed by the quality of content submitted and the discussions in the comments.
Have a wonderful 2021 everyone!
We're closing out 2023, and I figured it'd be nice to give people a space to say what they're thankful for, what fun they've had, what they plan to do next year, and so-on and so-forth.
# Happy New Year!
Join us and hold a KDE birthday party in your city. Fill in the wiki, meet up with your friends and celebrate 28 years of collaboration, free software and altruism!<p>https://community.kde.org/28th_birthday
Merry Christmas HN'ers!<p>I hope you had a great 2024. If you were effected by economic downturn, then keep strong 2025 will be better!
Wishing everyone a great 2025 from NZ :)
It's been a pretty challenging year in many ways, but wherever you are, I hope you can find whatever peace you desire, with whomever you desire it. Thank you all for continuing to be a beacon of sanity in this crazy world, and a never-ending supply of fascinating news and insightful discussions...
2024 has been a wild year, both in technology and within the wider world, and 2025 could yet be crazier, so I wish everyone here on one of the real great forums of the internet the best successes in their aspirations and goals in the new year! Long live HN!
What are your predictions for 2025?