>I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN

there are DOZENS of us

Go home, you're drunk(en)!

I've been telling him this for years.

I've even tried malort. He won't listen.

my fault :). I have to get a few things ready for a public release of more data

Is this data:

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/6396u5/rplace_archiv...

Complete?

I've been working with that.

That data was recorded by the community. It took everyone a while to figure out how to grab a snapshot of the canvas though, so a few hours of data near the start are missing.

Looking forward to that, it will be a very nice data set

Oops. Sorry about that. Look forward to it being back up :)

MAU isn't a great metric, I'd prefer to see both platforms' DAU

also it sounds too similar to "reddit"; it would lead to hilarious Abbott and Costello-esque hijinks

That's just askreddit

I've entered into the US dozens of times, never once have I been asked to even turn on my laptop. You'll be fine

Please don't do this . . .

Centralized IRC defeats the purpose of IRC

If one were bugging a telephone line, I think they'd use something far less conspicuous

And the telephone line is either the bottom one or the one next up.

VBA. It's nice to be able to write somebody an excel macro that they can run without having to install anything. Sue me.