#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Friday 10 April 2026 - 0:21:26
During this 1788-day reporting period, a total of 3226 different nicks were represented on #C++.

Most active times

3.8%	3.4%	3.4%	3.1%	3.1%	3.4%	3.7%	3.7%	3.8%	3.7%	4.0%	4.3%	4.1%	4.5%	4.8%	5.2%	5.1%	4.8%	4.8%	4.8%	4.7%	4.6%	4.3%	4.1%
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Most active nicks

	Nick	Number of lines	When?	Number of Words	Last seen	Random quote
1	PJBoy	16317		143663	5 days ago	"you can requires the negation of a concept"
2	Alipha	15865		258372	2 days ago	"PhilAlbano: you can just make the private property be an objec..."
3	ville	13176		188283	yesterday	"xcvb: that's a really poor answer"
4	Eelis	6990		96949	211 days ago	"geordi -c { int b{}; T a = b; } struct T { explicit T(int); };"
5	RandomReader	5316		92371	1041 days ago	"being CS1, is this actually a C++ class, or an invented langua..."
6	CarloWood	4491		64492	133 days ago	"The problem is as follows:"
7	cbreak	4339		39826	3 days ago	"jvsalo: it could lock all the mutexes in a deterministic order..."
8	anyone	3961		45448	741 days ago	"(or whereever this 'timeval' comes from)"
9	TinoDidriksen	2999		33735	424 days ago	"Afaik, it's the same guarantee in C++, except pointer-to-membe..."
10	AliceMeows	2890		30677	245 days ago	"You're doing something that isn't allowed per the standard"
11	chris64	2559		30998	63 days ago	"I read the table like that the ; q was not possible before"
12	fluter	2289		18584	449 days ago	"RazielZ: ok, but is C++26 releasing in 2026?"
13	InPhase	2271		43505	25 days ago	"stefanos82: Do you know about TOTP? This lets you avoid SMS."
14	kalven	2183		20277	10 days ago	"`gah = Gah(...)` operator= is invoked with a temporary Gah."
15	_PJBoy	1919		17189	32 days ago	"<< string_view(xs).size(); array<char, 3> xs;"
16	faLUKE	1845		31268	1041 days ago	"AliceMeows: then, this doesn't happen because of optimizations"
17	fiesh	1753		26195	19 days ago	"and who guarantees that fprintf does not allocate?"
18	bpalmer	1700		27025	1008 days ago	"Hmm. OK, I misunderstood the use case of owner_before,then."
19	rbox	1503		9810	12 days ago	"no you're not hardcore... unless you live hardcore..."
20	jbo	1485		18432	242 days ago	"but then also, there's, no FTM"
21	Oxyd	1459		21165	48 days ago	"(And neither will dereferencing nullptr for that record.)"
22	xcvb	1397		17792	3 days ago	"type mismatch right there. You're writing Java, eh"
23	urdh	1285		14836	245 days ago	"macro substitution happens way before the compiler even knows ..."
24	Raziel	1263		15521	39 days ago	"https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/1831"
25	Zogatribe	1210		9970	9 days ago	"gordonjcp: C++ is not suitable for safety critical systems"

These didn't make it to the top:

megaTherion (1184)	xardas (1150)	vancz (1104)	zz (1091)	rpav (1008)
veverak (981)	cplusplus (967)	Hash (859)	teut (855)	wakeup (843)
computerquip (834)	ujjawalgupta (804)	tct (721)	BurumaSerafuku (689)	John99 (682)
rajkosto (677)	imMute (653)	horribleprogram (618)	Gamah (590)	constxd (579)
Guest58 (576)	[o (572)	Feuermagier (555)	LunarJetman (549)	drew (548)
glguy (545)	Eelis_ (541)	zipper (528)	evangeline (526)	euouae (512)

By the way, there were 3171 other nicks.

Big numbers

Is marshmallow stupid or just asking too many questions? 56.0% lines contained a question!
ujjawalgupta didn't know that much either. 46.0% of his/her lines were questions.

The loudest one was Zoinkers, who yelled 15.4% of the time!
Another old yeller was marshmallow, who shouted 10.3% of the time!

It seems that FAT1337's shift-key is hanging: 5.1% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
<FAT1337> WRITTE
RokerHRO just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 4.3% of the time.

FAT1337 is a very aggressive person. He/She attacked others 4 times.
For example, like this:
* FAT1337 slaps FAT1337 with a rainbow trout
PJBoy can't control his/her aggressions, either. He/She picked on others 2 times.

Poor anyone, nobody likes him/her. He/She was attacked 3 times.
For example, like this:
* PJBoy slaps anyone with a series of trigraphs
FAT1337 seems to be unliked too. He/She got beaten 2 times.

ntat brings happiness to the world. 22.1% lines contained smiling faces. :)
RokerHRO isn't a sad person either, smiling 16.6% of the time.

RokerHRO seems to be sad at the moment: 9.1% lines contained sad faces. :(
CarloWood is also a sad person, crying 6.9% of the time.

npaperbot wrote the longest lines, averaging 168.9 letters per line.
#C++ average was 70.8 letters per line.

FAT1337 wrote the shortest lines, averaging 22.4 characters per line.
geordi_ was tight-lipped, too, averaging 26.6 characters.

Alipha spoke a total of 258372 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 188283 words.

ignorand wrote an average of 79.71 words per line.
Channel average was 12.43 words per line.

Most used words

	Word	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	would	7931	pasteldepelo
2	function	7101	highrate
3	there	6568	mr_sm1th
4	which	4792	Alipha
5	class	4004	PJBoy
6	about	3924	xcvb
7	because	3249	xcvb
8	using	3037	ARoxdale
9	think	2889	_PJBoy
10	const	2843	stefanos82

Most referenced nicks

	Nick	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	a	66609	Kasreynn
2	this	14226	xcvb
3	some	4050	Ramattack
4	Alipha	2299	yes-ubuntu
5	void	1202	PJBoy

Most referenced URLs

	URL	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	https://godbolt.org/	28	presonic
2	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/value_category	17	atrigent
3	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit	15	Eelis
4	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support	13	izabera
5	https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/endian	12	Alipha
6	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda	12	euouae
7	https://eel.is/c++draft/	12	ville
8	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/vector	11	sord937
9	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constraints	11	chris64
10	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order	10	xcvb
11	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/new	10	bpalmer
12	https://en.cppreference.com/w/	9	smol-hors
13	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector	9	xcvb
14	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/dependent_name	9	Alipha
15	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/range-for	9	YmrDtnJu

Other interesting numbers

TorTor wasn't very popular, getting kicked 3 times!
For example, like this:
*** TorTor was kicked by TinoDidriksen
frex seemed to be hated too: 3 kicks were received.

ville is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 27 people!
ville's faithful follower, TinoDidriksen, kicked about 21 people.

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

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

PJBoy always lets us know what he/she's doing: 86 actions!
For example, like this:
* PJBoy shrugs
Also, Alipha tells us what's up with 49 actions.

PJBoy talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 131 times!
Another lonely one was CarloWood, who managed to hit 122 times.

blahblahblah has quite a potty mouth. 2.0% words were foul language.
APic also makes sailors blush, 1.3% of the time.

Standard C++ specifications and code. \|\| Current standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2024 (a.k.a. C++24) \|\| https://isocpp.org/faq \|\| pastes: https://godbolt.org \|\| stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb \|\| other channels: #c++-general #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi	516 days ago at 09:28 by ville
Standard C++ specifications and code. \|\| Current standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2023 (a.k.a. C++23) \|\| https://isocpp.org/faq \|\| pastes: https://godbolt.org \|\| stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb \|\| other channels: #c++-general #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi	636 days ago at 09:09 by TinoDidriksen
Standard C++ specifications and code. \|\| Current standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2020 (a.k.a. C++20) \|\| https://isocpp.org/faq \|\| pastes: https://godbolt.org \|\| stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb \|\| other channels: #c++-general #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi	1480 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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