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How many readers? - Gri'shak - 07-31-2026
I was wondering. After all these years, how many people are on your mailing list? Is your number of readers growing? Where are they from? I can't even remember when I came across these stories, but it's years ago, when the first forum was online. Still enjoy getting your stories almost every friday, so keep up the good work!
RE: How many readers? - QuinnyWA - 08-01-2026
I started reading these in the 1990s! Someone posted them (zipped up in groups of 10) on a bulletin board back then and I was so happy when I found them on a website ages ago. I even remember sending Thomas a link to the first Lord of the Rings movie trailer. Hahahaha so long ago. I am in Perth, Australia.
RE: How many readers? - dpm - 08-02-2026
I would think this belongs in "The Website" forum rather than "The Author", but the answer is --- as best as I can calculate --- each recent chapter is emailed to 166 recipients and has been downloaded via browser an average of 200 times.
Edit: the latter is a count of unique IP addresses, of course; approximately two dozen people have downloaded it multiple times.
RE: How many readers? - Gri'shak - 08-06-2026
(08-02-2026, 12:54 AM)dpm Wrote: I would think this belongs in "The Website" forum rather than "The Author", but the answer is --- as best as I can calculate --- each recent chapter is emailed to 166 recipients and has been downloaded via browser an average of 200 times.
Edit: the latter is a count of unique IP addresses, of course; approximately two dozen people have downloaded it multiple times.
Woah, that is a lower number then I expected! This has been going on for 20 years now? It's awesome you still enjoy writing after all these years!
(08-01-2026, 11:43 AM)QuinnyWA Wrote: I started reading these in the 1990s! Someone posted them (zipped up in groups of 10) on a bulletin board back then and I was so happy when I found them on a website ages ago. I even remember sending Thomas a link to the first Lord of the Rings movie trailer. Hahahaha so long ago. I am in Perth, Australia.
Maastricht in the Netherlands here! It's a great place for us old timers, who've played 2nd edition!
RE: How many readers? - dpm - 08-08-2026
> It's a great place for us old timers, who've played 2nd edition!
What does that make people like me, who played when 1st edition was new?
RE: How many readers? - dpm - 08-08-2026
>> each recent chapter is emailed to 166 recipients
> Woah, that is a lower number then I expected!
In the early 2000's --- before his long hiatus --- the mailing list was over a thousand readers, with at least one on each continent . . . including Antarctica!
Returning to that number is unlikely, due to lower usage of email and the addition of RSS to the website.
RE: How many readers? - Thomas - 09-08-2026
For reference, a long time ago (late 1990s I think) I had over 400 people on the mailing list. Hard to know if they were all legit...and also, with the advent of websites around that time, I think many people switched to just finding them as they published, instead of getting them in email. Just some ramblings...