#C++-general @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Tuesday 28 July 2026 - 0:08:00
During this 1897-day reporting period, a total of 2087 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.

Most active times

2.7%	2.6%	2.6%	2.6%	2.4%	2.6%	3.0%	3.4%	3.9%	4.3%	4.6%	4.8%	4.7%	5.4%	5.6%	6.0%	5.6%	4.8%	4.9%	5.3%	5.4%	5.0%	4.0%	3.2%
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Most active nicks

	Nick	Number of lines	When?	Number of Words	Last seen	Random quote
1	PJBoy	55963		452289	3 days ago	"I have a lot of unchecked accesses to optionals"
2	LordKalma	51249		458262	264 days ago	"the language just says "store a sequence""
3	rpav	48100		599537	949 days ago	"trying to figure out how this code i wrote was supposed to work"
4	ville	27834		418698	2 days ago	"meicceli: because the committee painted themselves in a corner..."
5	johnny	17407		209009	992 days ago	"this all covered there on learnpp"
6	Haohmaru	16230		141341	629 days ago	"ah, well, temporarily remove the default ;P~"
7	Alipha	15505		248834	yesterday	"<< std::string().capacity();"
8	mort	13542		188166	yesterday	"the problem with exceptions is just that it's a hidden return"
9	cbreak	12144		113086	2 days ago	"anachrohack: yeah, of course"
10	RandomReader	10004		167907	1111 days ago	"(obvious long-term tradeoffs apply)"
11	computerquip	9116		120798	7 days ago	"Windows used to make that quite awful actually."
12	Friithian	6984		64189	298 days ago	"me, really confused why godbolt was having issues with my basi..."
13	xkoncek	6887		69829	548 days ago	"is using self-referential structs this way wrong? there is a d..."
14	very_sneaky	6498		91567	145 days ago	"i think gitlab has a good CI solution, and a good git server s..."
15	CarloWood	6287		93932	159 days ago	"ville: PS see, I DO add test cases when they are NEEDED."
16	_PJBoy	6012		51160	139 days ago	"cross compiling is nothing new"
17	kalven	5828		54938	2 days ago	"Yakov: yeah, whisper.cpp - not related to Google whisper or go..."
18	lru	5562		65060	7 days ago	"Yakov: why you leave before I answer? lol"
19	Raziel	5484		67869	69 days ago	"Richardcavell, do you mean gcc 13.3?"
20	horribleprogram	5148		38047	96 days ago	"paul424: i think MSVC has the "safe" versions with the _s"
21	TinoDidriksen	5111		58849	126 days ago	"Debuggability is a matter of tools evolving to understand std:..."
22	lpapp	5002		49095	846 days ago	"oh, by initialising to an invalid value, for example l.end()?"
23	mkoncek	4038		38418	120 days ago	"i think he said they should have specialized that template"
24	InPhase	3822		75838	7 days ago	"{ [](){ cout << "Directly called."; }(); } // Richardcavell_"
25	hnOsmium0001	3749		45398	416 days ago	"sentinel being a distinct type from the iterator is new in c++20"

These didn't make it to the top:

pulse (3577)	fiesh (3104)	chris64 (3004)	urdh (2984)	cq-work (2899)
lockywolf (2766)	cplusplus (2659)	yolo (2611)	smallville7123 (2474)	antto (2275)
onizu (2151)	MaddHatter (2135)	aurly (2058)	libfud (2048)	nightstrike (1976)
Juliu (1970)	lh_ideapad (1909)	meator (1897)	great_taste (1831)	lh_mouse (1790)
stefanos82 (1787)	ac_slater (1747)	euouae (1740)	paul424 (1712)	meicceli (1652)
ashafq (1640)	cart_man (1611)	bombastick (1564)	gehn (1530)	paule32 (1499)

By the way, there were 2032 other nicks.

Big numbers

Is Iarfen stupid or just asking too many questions? 47.6% lines contained a question!
stolen didn't know that much either. 46.5% of his/her lines were questions.

The loudest one was Iarfen, who yelled 17.1% of the time!
Another old yeller was lmat, who shouted 13.9% of the time!

It seems that smallvil_'s shift-key is hanging: 3.0% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
<smallvil_> XD
PissaNaBussa just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 3.0% of the time.

Haohmaru is a very aggressive person. He/She attacked others 26 times.
For example, like this:
* Haohmaru slaps lru with boost::optimism
lh_ideapad can't control his/her aggressions, either. He/She picked on others 9 times.

Poor PJBoy, nobody likes him/her. He/She was attacked 9 times.
For example, like this:
* Haohmaru slaps PJBoy and rpav with embedded
LordKalma seems to be unliked too. He/She got beaten 5 times.

Shell brings happiness to the world. 19.6% lines contained smiling faces. :)
smallvil_ isn't a sad person either, smiling 14.7% of the time.

CarloWood seems to be sad at the moment: 6.4% lines contained sad faces. :(
small is also a sad person, crying 4.6% of the time.

npaperbot wrote the longest lines, averaging 157.7 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 66.0 letters per line.

rbox wrote the shortest lines, averaging 33.3 characters per line.
Burusera was tight-lipped, too, averaging 34.0 characters.

rpav spoke a total of 599537 words!
rpav's faithful follower, LordKalma, didn't speak so much: 458262 words.

zibolo_ wrote an average of 67.00 words per line.
Channel average was 11.67 words per line.

Most used words

	Word	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	would	20980	uuuuu
2	there	17284	ville
3	about	15188	boru
4	think	14604	Terminus
5	which	14508	uuuuu
6	Something	10838	cbreak
7	should	10488	ville
8	because	10137	ville
9	function	9702	kalven
10	using	9545	mort

Most referenced nicks

	Nick	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	PJBoy	4643	yes-ubuntu
2	LordKalma	3501	ville
3	rpav	3477	JeffH
4	Alipha	2339	meator
5	ville	2201	karenw

Most referenced URLs

	URL	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	https://godbolt.org/	32	ivy
2	https://eel.is/c++draft/	20	ville
3	https://xkcd.com/927/	17	snowyeti
4	https://en.cppreference.com/w/	15	ville
5	https://github.com/nlohmann/json	13	chris64
6	https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy	13	ville
7	https://wolchok.org/posts/parameter-passing/	12	ville
8	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit	12	kalven
9	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support	11	chris64
10	https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html	11	ville
11	https://www.learncpp.com/	11	ville
12	https://github.com/hsutter/gcpp	10	LordKalma
13	https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/poly_obj	10	Alipha
14	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/value_category	10	Friithian
15	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20	9	meicceli

Other interesting numbers

Juliu wasn't very popular, getting kicked 9 times!
For example, like this:
*** Juliu was kicked by cbreak
stableless seemed to be hated too: 2 kicks were received.

ville is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 19 people!
ville's faithful follower, TinoDidriksen, kicked about 5 people.

Strange, no op was given on #C++-general!

Wow, no op was taken on #C++-general!

Haohmaru always lets us know what he/she's doing: 514 actions!
For example, like this:
* Haohmaru scratches head
Also, PJBoy tells us what's up with 372 actions.

LordKalma talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 521 times!
Another lonely one was PJBoy, who managed to hit 435 times.

WeblordP1pe has quite a potty mouth. 0.8% words were foul language.
white_man_from_t also makes sailors blush, 0.8% of the time.

C++ algorithms, libraries, practices, projects, tools. \|\| pastes: https://godbolt.org \|\| stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb \|\| channels: #c++ #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi	1589 days ago at 08:10 by ville
C++ algorithms, libraries, practices, projects, tools. \|\| pastes: https://wandbox.org/ \|\| stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb \|\| channels: #c++ #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi	1667 days ago at 07:55 by TinoDidriksen
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