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Giving thanks for the LWN community

[Posted November 28, 2024 by daroc]

Earlier today, one of our subscribers, anselm, posted the one millionth item in our database during a discussion in the comments about the GPL. One million articles and comments is a big milestone — one representing twenty two years of work by both the editors of LWN and the community. I think reaching this milestone on Thanksgiving is a lovely coincidental reminder of how far LWN has come, and how that wouldn't have been possible without your support. So thank you for reading.


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Thanks!

Posted Nov 29, 2024 2:35 UTC (Fri) by xanni (subscriber, #361) [Link]

Thank you for all your hard work over the last 22 years! And have a very Happy Thanksgiving.

thanks, corbet et al

Posted Nov 29, 2024 5:12 UTC (Fri) by dankamongmen (subscriber, #35141) [Link]

back in 2000, i had unlimited hopes for the internet. twenty-four years later, you're one of the very few sites justifying that hope. thanks for keeping it real.

Many Thanks!

Posted Nov 29, 2024 6:01 UTC (Fri) by JosephBao91 (subscriber, #157211) [Link]

Though I have not learnt about LWN for such a long time, I do learn a lot from these thoughtful articles, happen Thanksgiving!

Off-by-one

Posted Nov 29, 2024 9:42 UTC (Fri) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link] (3 responses)

Damn! I missed the millionth post by exactly one!

I guess an off-by-one is to be expected, given I mostly hack in unsafe C... ;-)

Congrats, Anselm (and LWN!)!

Lennart

Off-by-one

Posted Nov 29, 2024 10:16 UTC (Fri) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link] (1 responses)

You get another chance, because the next big round number is not too far away.
Link to your future winning post:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1048576/

Off-by-one

Posted Nov 30, 2024 21:15 UTC (Sat) by antacon (subscriber, #138885) [Link]

It's pretty neat that articles are considered comments, replies AND actual articles :D

Off-by-one

Posted Nov 29, 2024 11:58 UTC (Fri) by rrolls (subscriber, #151126) [Link]

Hey, I felt proud/lucky to have the final 6-digit comment number. :)

Thanks, LWN. I've said this before but I'll say it again: I'm glad we have a no-nonsense, old-fashioned website that looks like it's straight out of the 90's that, as well as having simply excellent technical writers on its editorial team, I can enjoy reading without the ads, social media plugins, "up next", and all the other distractions on almost every website today.

Yes indeed, thank you for LWN and its community

Posted Nov 29, 2024 10:30 UTC (Fri) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link]

Sincere thanks to the excellent LWN editors for nurturing a incredibly informative community in a way that keeps us reasonably well behaved too!

Many happy returns!

graybeard

Posted Nov 29, 2024 10:32 UTC (Fri) by ken (subscriber, #625) [Link] (9 responses)

While I'm not very active in the comments I did manage to squeeze in my first payment below the 1000 transaction number. Still subscribed.

Date ID Action Paid by Product Amount
09/29/02 988 Receive PayPal LWN.net subscription $60.00

graybeard

Posted Nov 30, 2024 3:46 UTC (Sat) by keithmo (subscriber, #12811) [Link] (5 responses)

This raised my curiosity -- looks like I was about one year late to the party: transaction #21043 on 11/12/03, subscriber ever since.

Huge thanks to everyone who works on LWN!

Re: graybeard

Posted Nov 30, 2024 3:55 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (3 responses)

I was curious about my timeline. Subscribed on 09/27/02 (which is 2002-09-27 for people who write dates out sensibly), transaction #828.

Re: graybeard

Posted Nov 30, 2024 16:35 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I always have trouble with the American middle-endian habit :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Re: graybeard

Posted Dec 1, 2024 5:54 UTC (Sun) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

10/03/02 1293 Charge credit card LWN.net subscription $5.00

Missed it by a short amount, although the next transaction wasn't for around 5y because the place I worked purchased a corporate subscription for everybody, RIP SecurePipe 8-)

Re: graybeard

Posted Dec 1, 2024 11:48 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

09/25/02 93 Charge credit card LWN.net subscription $60.00

(As evidenced by my UID I've been here for a while!)

I also donated money about a month prior, when they were soliciting donations right before they moved to a subscription model. I don't recall if that transaction is part of that sequencing...)

graybeard

Posted Dec 2, 2024 15:34 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

I have transaction #312, though... somehow for $0. :) Maybe there was some free initial offer?

09/26/02 312 Gift None LWN.net subscription $0.00

graybeard

Posted Dec 2, 2024 5:39 UTC (Mon) by thoeme (subscriber, #2871) [Link] (2 responses)

Interesting, my first transactions is "09/26/02", ID "289", "Gift": I guess this was a onetime donation I sent to LWN following up on a warning of our Editor #1 about the dire financial straits LWN was in during these times. So yeah, 22 years, just gone by :-)

graybeard

Posted Dec 2, 2024 13:42 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

That was the free subscription we offered to the people who had donated ahead of the switch to the subscription model. Those donations predate September 2002 and aren't reflected in the transaction information here, Thanks again for having come through when we really needed it! We would not be here now if that hadn't happened.

graybeard

Posted Dec 3, 2024 5:28 UTC (Tue) by thoeme (subscriber, #2871) [Link]

Oh now I remember: At the time I thought "too little, too late, but it might buy the LWN staff at least dinner".

Thank you

Posted Nov 29, 2024 12:30 UTC (Fri) by GCMorGoHome (subscriber, #151226) [Link]

I sincerely thank the LWN team for their persistence in producing such high quality content. It's a rarity nowadays.
It's been an incredibly useful resource to keep myself educated and up to date on Linux and Open Source.

I haven't been able to participate much in the Open Source community yet, which is something I very much aspire to do. In the meantime, LWN's coverage of events and various developments helps me feel closer to the community and encourages me to participate myself.

Thank YOU!

Posted Nov 29, 2024 13:01 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

I give thanks to the wonderful staff at LWN. This site's quality has remained stellar for going on a quarter of a century. That's something to be very proud of.

Thank YOU!

Posted Nov 30, 2024 4:42 UTC (Sat) by CChittleborough (subscriber, #60775) [Link]

Not only does LWN have wonderful staff (including the recent recruits), it also has many great commenters. As well as the Linux coders who comment here, I particularly appreciate dskoll and NYKevin.

Thank you, editors

Posted Nov 29, 2024 13:40 UTC (Fri) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

LWN is a hidden gem of the technical Internet.

I'll join everyone else and give thanks to our editors for keeping it that way — for the thoughtful articles and witty writing, for putting up with some of our /contentious/ comments, for staying true to the vision, and for every other way they enrich our lives, professional and otherwise.

Thank you

Posted Nov 29, 2024 15:24 UTC (Fri) by diyab (subscriber, #3196) [Link]

Thank you to LWN for being a source of trusted journalism, for the great articles, and for everything else that you do! 🍻

Thank you to LWN and the LWNers

Posted Nov 29, 2024 16:46 UTC (Fri) by Athas (subscriber, #104895) [Link] (1 responses)

LWN is the best news publication I subscribe to. Not merely the best in tech, but the best overall, although of course I don't get my news about domestic politics from LWN. The other media I subscribe to tend to be of the same kind; consisting of a relatively small number of in-depth articles written by people with significant insight in the topic at hand. I wish newspapers took societal news as seriously as LWN treats flame wars about memory allocation policies.

The level of discourse on LWN is also remarkably high - easily the best of any public forum I have seen. Even when personal conflicts occur, they are usually not due to trolling or ignorance, but due to strong-willed people with technical expertise who vehemently disagree (to the extent it then becomes personal) about some technical aspect. I don't comment much myself, but I read many of the comment threads.

Thank you to LWN and the LWNers

Posted Nov 29, 2024 16:55 UTC (Fri) by pss (subscriber, #39291) [Link]

Athas' comments struck a chord in me and I share very similar thoughts and experiences.

Echoing everybody else on this thread, thanks for the wonderful community and keeping the promise of early Internet alive. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you, LWN team!

Posted Nov 29, 2024 17:49 UTC (Fri) by hodgestar (subscriber, #90918) [Link]

For the best journalism in any field on the internet or in print.

Echoes of the past.

Posted Nov 29, 2024 18:57 UTC (Fri) by rweikusat2 (subscriber, #117920) [Link]

I remember the time when LWN was still an open access publication. A controversy from back then were the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA supposedly making it illegal to publish security fixes for open source software. This motivated Alan Cox to create a kernel patch with some 'hidden' security fixes in it which were explicitly left undocumented "because of the DMCA." A somewhat heated and lengthy LWN discussion about DMCA, copyright law, security, God, the universe and everything else ensued with a lot handwringing about this horrible and unsustainable new situation.

Having gotten annoyed with all this, I took the diff apart in private and then posted one of the secret security fixes as a comment. Subject was: Am I the last person capable of reading diffs on this planet? [or similar] and the text was "Here's one of them (minus architecture specific changes)" followed by the relevant parts of the patch (minus architecture specific changes).

In the spirit of this, "On to the next 22 years!"

:-)

Best tech news so far

Posted Nov 29, 2024 20:57 UTC (Fri) by judas_iscariote (guest, #47386) [Link]

Only website I have read for a very very long time, its old-fashioned design is the only defect I have found, the content is top quality and interesting.

...to at least a million more!

Posted Nov 29, 2024 23:24 UTC (Fri) by adam820 (subscriber, #101353) [Link]

There's a reason LWN is my homepage, and it's the one subscription I look _forward to_ re-upping every year! Thanks for the whole team's excellent coverage, and here's to _at least_ another million comments!

Wishing a happy 2025 and beyond to LWN staff and all of the readers!

Thank *you*

Posted Nov 30, 2024 0:48 UTC (Sat) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

LWN is a shining beacon for IT journalism and has always been. Thank you.

Giving thanks

Posted Nov 30, 2024 1:39 UTC (Sat) by andromeda (guest, #138427) [Link]

Thanks LWN for continuing to be a breath of fresh air in a progressively polluted media environment.

Thank you for such a wonderful website!

Posted Nov 30, 2024 1:48 UTC (Sat) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link] (3 responses)

Twenty-two YEARS? Now I'm starting to feel old.....

I remember the days when LWN was open to anyone for anything....and then the jerks started showing up.....

Linux Weekly News kept me centered, when I had to live in a Windows world of work...Thank you so much for that!

Time flies

Posted Nov 30, 2024 1:55 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

That's 22 years since the switch to the "new" site code. LWN has been around since January 1998. If you think you feel old ...

Time flies

Posted Dec 2, 2024 19:05 UTC (Mon) by Hobart (subscriber, #59974) [Link]

Thank you for your work, I'm glad to see the site throughout the week, and have been for years.
-jon
Denver, CO

Thank you for such a wonderful website!

Posted Nov 30, 2024 13:00 UTC (Sat) by rweikusat2 (subscriber, #117920) [Link]

I've seen the site when it had just started to exist. Nevertheless, I haven't yet managed to get people to stop referring to me (pointedly) as "young man".

Thanks and congrats!

Posted Nov 30, 2024 8:42 UTC (Sat) by chema (subscriber, #32636) [Link] (1 responses)

LWN is the only site where I keep an active subscription, and it’s worth far more than what it asks for subscribing.

I started exploring the website back when I was in university and thoroughly enjoyed each and every technical article they published. To me, the articles were better than any alternative available at the time. They were more up-to-date and covered topics in greater depth. As soon as I had a stable income, I subscribed, and since then, I've been very happy.

I’ve had lwn.net set as my browser's homepage ever since; it’s the first thing I see when I open Firefox.

Thanks and congrats!

Posted Nov 30, 2024 19:00 UTC (Sat) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

You wrote:

"I’ve had lwn.net set as my browser's homepage ever since; it’s the first thing I see when I open Firefox."

Me too! It used to drive my Windows bosses nuts!

Best writing

Posted Nov 30, 2024 19:41 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

Jon writing is always a pleasure to read. English has this defect that connectives are not required, and the same word can serve as noun, adjective verb. Great writers like Jon style manage to write unambiguous sentences that are easy to read.

Unfortunately the trend in other English publications is to write only the most ambiguous texts by abusing awkward periphrases, which can be read as the opposite of what is intended.

So thanks to the LWN team for setting an example to follow, in a technical publication no less!

Best writing

Posted Dec 1, 2024 13:18 UTC (Sun) by schutz (subscriber, #3760) [Link]

I just wanted to answer "me too" to most comments on this page, but I'll pick this one for my "+1". As a non-native English speaker, I want to emphasize how much I enjoy reading articles that are so well written. When reading an article, It always looks easy to produce... until you start reading those authored by other people, or worse, when you try writing something yourself. And then you realize how good the LWN authors are !

I don't know if I should be glad that our favorite editor is not grumpy anymore, or sad that we haven't read a new piece in the "Grumpy editor" series for, what, several years now ? Of course, the question is purely rhetorical. Especially since I've had the pleasure of meeting Jon at LCA 2004 in Adelaide, and while he may be grumpy when testing new technologies, he was one of the nicest people I met at the conference.

(and I just checked, and realized that I can be proud of this: 09/25/02 238 Charge credit card LWN.net subscription $30.00)

Keep on rocking!

Posted Dec 6, 2024 4:37 UTC (Fri) by nas (subscriber, #17) [Link]

Hard to believe sometimes how quickly time goes by. Thank you for many years of excellent reporting!


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