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

Statistics generated on Tuesday 10 March 2026 - 0:19:27
During this 7-day reporting period, a total of 32 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.

Most active times

3.2%	2.5%	3.4%	3.9%	2.3%	2.2%	2.3%	3.5%	6.0%	2.9%	3.2%	4.5%	7.3%	3.1%	4.3%	8.1%	4.5%	4.3%	3.4%	4.7%	4.6%	4.5%	5.4%	4.3%
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

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= 6-11

= 12-17

= 18-23

Most active nicks

	Nick	Number of lines	When?	Number of Words	Last seen	Random quote
1	ville	98		1660	yesterday	"https://malus.sh/blog.html"
2	boru	67		817	5 days ago	"Okay, that doesn't tell me anything."
3	PJBoy	60		480	4 days ago	"I don't really have any problems with that feature"
4	computerquip	34		571	yesterday	"Only reason it came up is because it's built into Zed. Trying ..."
5	_PJBoy	27		271	5 days ago	"good old prompt injections"
6	apteryx	21		289	4 days ago	"ville: I'm debugging qtcreator itself :-u0"
7	Budd	21		341	2 days ago	"N is not a power of 2, but it is pretty small."
8	meicceli	18		247	yesterday	"how do i create a "sink"-function, that can be called with jus..."
9	InPhase	17		371	2 days ago	"Or 4 to make it a power of 2."
10	Habbie	15		112	yesterday	"(makes sense, the first url is not fast, although it works)"
11	ARoxdale	14		335	yesterday	"Is there any way of converting a std::tuple<T1,T2> into a std:..."
12	metayeti	12		102	6 days ago	"you'd have to do it with a lambda"
13	lh_mouse	11		119	4 days ago	"`-g` should suffice for most use."
14	Alipha	10		180	yesterday	"meicceli: I think I have an idea, but it'll be a bit before I ..."
15	afiore	10		110	yesterday	"Hi all. Anyone here interested in hacking on (playing with) a ..."
16	Richardcavell_	9		141	2 days ago	"is that because you won't get short-circuit evaluation?"
17	rajkosto	8		139	yesterday	"just write all your own containers, ez"
18	very_sneaky	7		190	5 days ago	"just ask chatgpt to filter those out ;)"
19	drew	7		143	4 days ago	"which is fine... it's just stylistically a bit weird"
20	MaddHatter	7		268	6 days ago	"[808]state: cppref is pretty good, although it's drifted more ..."
21	pipi	6		53	6 days ago	"this is as mysterious as protected inheritance to me"
22	fiesh	6		69	2 days ago	"as with a hammer, you'll still use your brain to use the tool"
23	kalven	5		59	2 days ago	"computerquip: the name of the check say non-private, but the t..."
24	barometz	5		88	4 days ago	"I ran into that with clangd in vs code, the fact that the path..."
25	nightfrog	5		75	6 days ago	"Habbie: i need to check before checking if it exists"

These didn't make it to the top:

mort (4)	andreyv (2)	lru (2)	geordi_ (2)	npaperbot (2)
snappy (1)	stanrifkin_ (1)

Big numbers

Is ARoxdale stupid or just asking too many questions? 35.7% lines contained a question!
apteryx didn't know that much either. 28.6% of his/her lines were questions.

The loudest one was Alipha, who yelled 10.0% of the time!
Another old yeller was apteryx, who shouted 4.8% of the time!

It seems that lh_mouse's shift-key is hanging: 9.1% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
<lh_mouse> -DCMAKE_CXX
PJBoy just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 1.7% of the time.

Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.

afiore brings happiness to the world. 20.0% lines contained smiling faces. :)
Habbie isn't a sad person either, smiling 13.3% of the time.

Nobody is sad in #C++-general! What a happy channel. :-)

ARoxdale wrote the longest lines, averaging 134.4 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 81.3 letters per line.

Habbie wrote the shortest lines, averaging 39.5 characters per line.
PJBoy was tight-lipped, too, averaging 43.6 characters.

ville spoke a total of 1660 words!
ville's faithful follower, boru, didn't speak so much: 817 words.

MaddHatter wrote an average of 38.29 words per line.
Channel average was 14.37 words per line.

Most used words

	Word	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	something	21	ville
2	would	18	barometz
3	return	17	ville
4	debug	15	ville
5	which	13	ville
6	could	12	ville
7	symbols	11	ville
8	random	9	InPhase
9	check	7	nightfrog
10	things	7	boru

Most referenced URLs

	URL	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls/wiki/Project-Setup#cmake	1	apteryx
2	https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto	1	afiore
3	https://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/issue4520	1	PJBoy
4	https://gitea.evergreencrypto.co/EvergreenCrypto/docker-fina	1	afiore
5	https://pjboy.godbolt.org/z/j9nW7YbEq	1	PJBoy
6	https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/misc/non-priv	1	computerquip
7	https://godbolt.org/z/zTscsabTn	1	meicceli
8	https://mort.coffee/home/clang-compiler-hacking/	1	mort
9	https://godbolt.org/z/WPWEbT4Pv	1	Alipha
10	https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-long-tail-of-llm-assisted-dec	1	_PJBoy
11	https://godbolt.org/z/4fMaMzqEq	1	meicceli
12	https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327	1	ville
13	https://cppreference.com/w/Cppreference%253AArchives.html	1	ARoxdale
14	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/26	1	computerquip
15	https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize/ret	1	drew

Other interesting numbers

Nice opers here, no one got kicked!

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

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

afiore always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
* afiore shrugs
Also, pipi tells us what's up with 1 actions.

MaddHatter talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 1 times!

ville has quite a potty mouth. 0.1% words were foul language.