The January Review Day Review

Wow! The Review Day began with a goal of 573 reviews. That would have beaten our record from July 2010's Review Day when we did a total of 572 reviews. However, y'all weren't content with that. No, y'all had to go and beat the goal by 88 reviews.

That's right. By the time Big Ben struck midnight in London, YWSers had completed 660 reviews toward the goal. But that's not at all for you see reviews in Art/Photography don't count toward the goal. However, when you include reviews in that forum, YWSers had completed a total of 692 reviews.

692 reviews in 24 hours. There ain't no way that record is falling anytime soon.

By the way if you participated in the Review Day, you can check your rank here (it's been cleaned up to take ties into account):
review_day_ranks.php

Now without further ado, here are the stats:
Number of Characters: 1089259
Number of Words: 179544
Number of E's: 92065
Number of S's: 47575
Number of The's: 31569
Number of -ing: 21423
Number of Periods: 13088
Number of Is's: 12638
Number of -ed: 12464
Number of Commas: 10754
Number of C coming before E: 5058
Number of Quoted Sections: 3678
Number of I coming before E: 3608
Number of Semi-colons: 3085
Number of Backslashes: 2935
Number of Z's: 1745
Number of X's: 1543
Number of Reviews: 692
Number of Reviews excluding Art: 660
Number of Fahrvergnügen: 36
Number of Schadenfreude: 2

Top 5 Reviewers
Matt Bellamy: 52
Kyllorac: 20
LilySoulMahon: 19
cassidyrose: 18
DaSpetsnaz: 16

Number of Reviewers: 154
LilySoulMahon did the first review
d@ydre@mer27 did the 100 review
KatnissEverdeen did the 200 review
JabberHut did the 300 review
DaSpetsnaz did the 400 review
Kyllorac did the 500 review
neversaynikki did the 600 review
LilySoulMahon did the last review

Lastly, here's an interesting image of YWS' server usage:


In the image above, the Review Day is that last quarter of Saturday (a little more than that) along with the first three columns shown for Sunday.

Now, YWS runs on a cloud based service at http://www.vps.net. So instead of having a real server, YWS uses what are called nodes. One node equals 600 mhz of processing power, and YWS has 7 nodes. In the image above, that middle red line represents 10 nodes. So for a good portion of the Review Day, YWS was running well above its allotted capacity. That in turn led to 4 crashes total. Needless to say, I spent much of the time just ensuring that YWS continued to run!


Bottom Line: 692 reviews in 24 hours; 120 more than the previous record. Incredible.

Ohhh, we were all brilliant! *applauds excitedly* Wonderful job, everyone!

You did a pretty good job of keeping YWS from crashing. I was pleasantly surprised I only encountered some signs of crashiness twice.

I also like that I got the 500th review.

Number of Fahrvergnügen: 36

You'll need to start using a new word. Although I only counted 5 going through a search.

I love the same person started/finished. That is awesome.

Awesome job YWS!

This is what happens when you throw a competition into YWS. Review Day is like our Super Bowl!

Wow! Great job, everyone! I only did three reviews, but one of those Schadenfreudes was mine

15 reviews and a Schadenfreude from me. Awe yea.

Yeeeeeah we kind of rock.

Especially Matt she's freakin hardcore O_O

Kudos to everyone who did more reviews than me! (Not to mention kudos to Demi with her schadenfreude. ) You know, kudos to everyone in general. This was an awesome review day. :33

Fahrvergnügen!

Awesome job everyone!

We rock. End of story.

600+?!
Holy WOWNESS!
We're totally awesome-sauce.

That in turn led to 4 crashes total. Needless to say, I spent much of the time just ensuring that YWS continued to run!

I like to imagine the website as a physical thing you have to keep from crashing. And you run around, battening down the hatches, and lashing the sails, and turning the rudder to port (or starboard, whichever suits your fancy), and bailing out water.