#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Thursday 22 January 2026 - 0:20:38
During this 1710-day reporting period, a total of 3164 different nicks were represented on #C++.


Most active times
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50681
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44804
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41941
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41699
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45226
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49684
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49885
3.8%
50387
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49893
4.0%
53231
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57570
4.1%
55305
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60239
4.8%
63680
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69337
5.1%
68412
4.8%
63855
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63927
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64651
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60178
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57730
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54346
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
0-5 = 0-5 6-11 = 6-11 12-17 = 12-17 18-23 = 18-23

Most active nicks
 NickNumber of linesWhen?Number of WordsLast seenRandom quote
1 PJBoy16153302478844899141853yesterday"and you posted the type of the time point earlier"
2 Alipha15680274759286837255460yesterday"PhilAlbano: you can catch by value `catch(invalid_argument e)`..."
3 ville128751307381747802971183584yesterday"https://eel.is/c++draft/basic.types#general-9.sentence-1"
4 Eelis699070512002854223196949133 days ago"(which i fully expect will be added at some point)"
5 RandomReader53161796885276235992371963 days ago"geordi: -c struct Foo { struct Bar; };"
6 CarloWood4491314691146920176449255 days ago" 135 | void operator<<(std::ostream&, ...);"
7 cbreak4286181750143719183906918 days ago"godbolt lets you use a self-contained link or a shortlink"
8 anyone39614557431454130945448663 days ago"dlclose just does what has to be done, it's not like it's resp..."
9 TinoDidriksen299977135392264733735346 days ago"Your code shouldn't be affected at all by whether you use -flt..."
10 AliceMeows289028468599392830677167 days ago"On the internet nobody knows you're a cat"
11 chris64254377914702903080538 days ago"thanks for the tip ville. didn't check the conference videos f..."
12 fluter2289503100075318584371 days ago"RazielZ: ok, but is C++26 releasing in 2026?"
13 InPhase22295938017834273030 days ago"zxd: My head spins a little with reinterpret_cast<foo*&> ... ..."
14 kalven21095371783281066196102 days ago"xcvb: let's ask the compiler: https://godbolt.org/z/jsd6PY5ra ..."
15 faLUKE18453098357687731268963 days ago"Alipha: no, coherently to what you just said"
16 _PJBoy18346411171162802 days ago"the lifetimes work out fine"
17 fiesh172767481122125703yesterday"Posterdati: yes https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/threa..."
18 bpalmer170059118430562027025930 days ago"namespace yourspace { class _1d; }; , if you like"
19 rbox1491786137539972225 days ago"did you get your C++ license?"
20 jbo14851684069857918432164 days ago"yeah I figured it out eventually"
21 Oxyd14501521486085422107750 days ago"geordi --precedence modifiers &= B_COMMAND_KEY | B_OPTION_KEY ..."
22 urdh12854857514714836167 days ago"Richardcavell: did you read the errors & notes provided by the..."
23 xcvb12447919846550215760yesterday"catch (const invalid_argument &e) works too"
24 Raziel123520522838641615188167 days ago"_PJBoy, who do I have to bribe for conancenter to look at PRs?"
25 Zogatribe1210123447615997030 days ago"halloy9898: Qt, however I will be destroying Qt in 2 years."


These didn't make it to the top:
megaTherion (1184) xardas (1150) vancz (1104) zz (1091) rpav (1008)
veverak (977) cplusplus (967) Hash (859) teut (855) wakeup (843)
computerquip (833) ujjawalgupta (804) tct (721) BurumaSerafuku (689) John99 (682)
rajkosto (676) imMute (653) horribleprogram (618) Gamah (590) Guest58 (576)
[o (572) constxd (566) Feuermagier (555) drew (548) glguy (544)
Eelis_ (541) LunarJetman (532) zipper (528) evangeline (526) arch-angel (512)

By the way, there were 3109 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is marshmallow stupid or just asking too many questions? 55.8% 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 10.5% 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> HI :(

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 70.7 letters per line.
FAT1337 wrote the shortest lines, averaging 22.4 characters per line.
geordi_ was tight-lipped, too, averaging 27.4 characters.
Alipha spoke a total of 255460 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 183584 words.
rodybig wrote an average of 77.00 words per line.
Channel average was 12.42 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 7858 ville
2 function 7024 lh_mouse
3 there 6498 _PJBoy
4 which 4768 xcvb
5 class 3946 redshuffle
6 about 3897 xcvb
7 because 3232 ximbau
8 using 3012 Ramattack
9 think 2885 agent314
10 const 2824 xcvb

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 a 65735 ville
2 this 14099 xcvb
3 some 4015 ville
4 Alipha 2290 jbo
5 void 1198 daydrinking

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://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda 12 euouae
6 https://eel.is/c++draft/ 12 ville
7 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/endian 12 Alipha
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/new 10 bpalmer
11 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order 10 xcvb
12 https://en.cppreference.com/w/ 9 smol-hors
13 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106110/what-is-move-sem 9 faLUKE
14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector 9 xcvb
15 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/range-for 9 YmrDtnJu

Other interesting numbers
CarloWood wasn't very popular, getting kicked 3 times!
For example, like this:
     *** CarloWood was kicked by ville

frex seemed to be hated too: 3 kicks were received.
ville is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 26 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 agrees with bind being archais

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 130 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.

Latest Topics
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 438 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 558 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 1402 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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