Once again I was sipping coffee and lapsing into insanity. I do this on a regular basis (if you haven’t realized). This time, I was staring uselessly at the HPFF home page. Have you ever really looked at the home page? There are all kinds of neat links and news items (don’t miss those!) and over in the corner is the little stats box.

That stats box goes up daily. It astounds me actually. But they are just really really big numbers to me…so I decided to do some unofficial number crunching on those stats to figure out what they really mean. Take a lookie at what I found out:

-HPFF has been around for five years and has 36,120 stories. That averages 7,224 stories posted here a year!

-We have nearly 109,000 reviews that have been left (thank you devoted reviewers, we love you!). Now this gets a bit complicated to analyze (average reading per minute and average chapter length and other technical junk) but do you realize that our reviewers have spent over 20 thousand hours reading stories on the site? 20 THOUSAND!!!! I about peed my pants once I figured that out.

-Writers, your turn for acclaim – we have 16753 authors at the time of this post. You’ve written 2.1 stories each, composed of about 7 chapters each. Doesn’t sound like a lot but get this…in total, authors at HPFF have logged just under 204,000 hours writing stories for HPFF.

There is a post somewhere in the forum about “professional” writers who log 8 hours a day writing…I don’t know about you but I think, professional or not, we’ve got ‘em beat.

Happy Writing!