While I’ve been asking some of my long-term curiosities, here’s another one. I don't think I trust the viewership numbers.
The Acronyms Gone Wild on the Games Board has its last post from me almost 1 ½ years ago. I could see that maybe some newcomers would look it up. As it’s a long thread, perhaps some, bit by bit, go through the whole thing, so the viewer counts would increase a bit.
But, I can’t imagine there would be extensive views, especially every day. For a long time I’ve been keeping track of the number of views, since it’s been such a puzzle. Sometimes it just went up a few to 20 or 30 views a day, but it always went up at least a bit. But it often also had jumps of 100 or more in a day! That just seems totally inconceivable. Lately it’s gone through a prolonged period of more than 100 a day. Here are the counts from July - times are generally between midnight and 2 or 3 a.m.
July 1 35,341
July 2 35,404
July 3 35,562
July 4 35,726
July 5 35,834
July 6 35,972
July 7 36,102
July 8 36,241
July 9 36,340
July 10 36,437
July 11 36,579
July 12 36,636
July 13 36,762
July 14 36,792
July 15 36,896
July 16 37,019
July 17 37,145
July 18 37,329
July 19 37,437
July 20 37,586
July 21 37,695
July 22 37,869
July 23 38,016
July 24 38,131
July 25 38,244
July 26 38,358
July 27 38,462