- MOA Announce 40 Million Lifetime Pageviews! (Donations please) Archived Message
Posted by MikeD
on June 8, 2019, 10:44 am
For me the MOA has become my favorite daily go-to news source everyday. Please help out with a donation if you can  Interesting history of how site evolved since 2004, how site got its name et al... Mike We Are Happy To Announce 40 Million Lifetime Pageviews! Over the last week there were several meta-post about the Moon of Alabama blog itself. This is another happy one. A week ago we announced some minor renovations of this blog's functionality. Smaller linking issues were fixed and the 'search' feature is now again available. The best though is that Moon of Alabama is now -thanks to Philipe- perfectly readable on mobile devices. Try it out and bookmark it on your smartphone! Yesterday your host explained how this blog gets made. It may be astonishing that the typing up of a post is actually the least time consuming task. But it is only a lot of reading and research that allows for Moon of Alabama's exceptional thematic breadth. Today we can all see the result of this work. Moon of Alabama just passed the mark of 40 million lifetime pageviews! Here is a screenshot of the blog's statistics page taken today at 18:48 UTC or 2:48 PM EST. This blog was created on June 30 2004. As it says on its About page: This site's purpose is to discuss politics, economics, philosophy and blogger Billmon's Whiskey Bar writings. Some time ago the commenting at Billmon's Whiskey Bar became a bit excessive. Billmon therefore closed the comments at his place on June 29, 2004. The community of commentators was left behind to search for a new place. Moon of Alabama was opened as an independent, open forum for members of the Whiskey Bar community. Bernhard started and still runs the site. Once a while you will also find posts and art from regular commentators. Billmon since closed his Whiskey Bar and Bernhard, aka b, became an accidental blogger. The first post on Moon of Alabama was headlined KISS for 'keep it simple stupid'. I still stick to that principle and therefore keep the original design. Don't expect any nifty updates or features. Throughout the first years this blog was called up only a few dozens times per day. The "7332.37 Pageviews/Day" in the above statistics are thereby a bit misleading. Currently a page of this site is called up and viewed some 25,000 times per day. bigger Compared to some other sites the 25,000 pageviews per day are a small number. But it means that there are more than 10,000 people who visit the Moon on any average day. During its first 12 years this blog was run as a private hobby. It is now one authors full time activity. He depends on the generosity of the reader of this site to keep it going. Please consider to donate to him. Email - MoonofA @ aol.com - (take out the blanks) to receive my mail address and bank transfer data. Or use the Paypal button below to send whatever you think is appropriate down my way. (The Paypal account is in Euros. 1 Euro is currently about US$1.15.) https://www.moonofalabama.org/ |
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