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# Bored, so I did this (warning: very geeky)
Instead of doing what I was meant to do with Excel, I made a couple of graphs showing the growth of b3ta. They are here and here.

I also hereby predict post ten-million will be made in January 2006, and 100,000,000 in July 2012, but that sounds very wrong.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:42, archived)
# have you been kicking the server
in the nuts, to get it to cough up those stats?
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:43, archived)
# There
is a big page of stats somewhere I think. I can't remember how to get to it though.
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:44, archived)
# there's
www.b3ta.com/board_stats/

although, i bet he just went to www.b3ta.com/board/postnumber for every milestone-esque number, and found the date at the bottom of the post.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:45, archived)
# um.. this old graph was updated with a plotted graph of the actual results over it
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 19 May 2003, 18:09, archived)
# here
www.b3ta.com/board_stats/

updated when the mods have got enough free time to waste
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:45, archived)
# but it doesn't show
a time breakdown on the number of posts, I don't think. I was hoping to blame Sargant for the brief but traumatic outage earlier.
Seems he's in the clear.
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:46, archived)
# i did it by hand
but no, i went to the logarithmic ones, so I only looked at about 40 threads.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:45, archived)
# you could prob
work it out by taking post numbers and dates from the spaz...
(I helped save b3ta! buckets, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:45, archived)
# the first one
does seem to fit fnord's original "more pie for everyone" model. so yay!
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:44, archived)
# At that rate
do we reach post infinity in December 2012 and the world ends?



(Note: I do not subscribe to the Mayan Calendar bullshit, I just thought it was a funny comment.)
(I helped save b3ta! ?!, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:44, archived)
# Then the universe is replaced by something even more improbable
some people say this has already happened
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:46, archived)
# turbulence.
the universe will be replaced by turbulence.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:49, archived)
# The world ends next year
on the grounds the Aztechs predicted that the world would end a number of times- humanity, bar a few who would repopulate the earth, would be wiped out again and again. The last one was when Columbus discovered them. Now for the part I pieced together myself: the next one was December 23rd 2003 (I think, been a while since I saw it) and there's a probe to Mars landing that day. We discover aliens that day, we get wiped out. Yay!
(I helped save b3ta! Whillow, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:51, archived)
# i thought it was 2012
but my sources are murky
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:52, archived)
# 2012 was the maya
he's raising aztecs which is a whole other kettle of unconfirmed fish.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:53, archived)
# Naturally.
Better get the kettle on then
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:53, archived)
# predictions sound sensible
but where indeed did the stats come from?
(I helped save b3ta! wingphil, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:46, archived)
# he calculated them
as all stats must be initially, from the original data (ie. he spazzed and found out)
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:47, archived)
# hand-spazzing
10, 20, 30... 100, 200... 1000, 2000... etc. etc

hand-spazzing sounds so dodgy
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:48, archived)
# a sterling effort
ill shake your hand right after you wash it.

edit: i think i could write a console thing in java to do that automatically and output the results in csv. but you've done it now.
(I helped save b3ta! wingphil, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:50, archived)
# i have the excel table
for no reason whatsoever
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 19 May 2003, 17:54, archived)