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The Lunduke Journal 2023 "Year in Review"
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January 06, 2024
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This last year -- 2023 -- was, without question, the best year yet for The Lunduke Journal.

I wanted to take just a moment to document the community stats (for all 3 parts of The Lunduke Journal) along with the biggest articles for the year.

The Biggest Articles of the Year

I've been writing articles -- for a few different Tech Publications -- for quite a long time.  With many articles that have "gone viral" over the years.

But 2023 -- hooooo, doggy! -- was the biggest year for Lunduke-penned articles.

I'm going to keep the hard numbers a bit of a secret at the moment (because I know some of my competitors are curious what my numbers are... and I kinda want to keep them guessing!), but I will say this: One of the "Wikimedia" articles was referenced, on X/Twitter alone, over 20 million times.  In one month.

Here are the 5 articles which grabbed the most attention during 2023.  In order:

  1. Wikimedia profit, assets, and executive wages explode in 2023
  2. IBM / Red Hat whistleblower leaks internal, racist, anti-White presentation
  3. Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
  4. The Wiki Piggy Bank
  5. Linux Foundation decreased Linux spending to 3.2% in 2022

There were plenty of other articles that got close to that number 5 slot -- including historical articles that performed surprisingly well -- but they didn't quite make the Top 5 list.

2023 also saw the first year where one of the top 5 articles was not on the Tech-only site (Lunduke.Locals.com).  In fact, 3 of the top 10 articles of 2023 were posted to ConservativeNerds.Locals.com.

Community Statistics

All three of the sites in The Lunduke Journal family saw significant growth during the year in terms of the activity and size of the community.  During 2023 a total of 45,877 comments were posted by all of you -- roughly 3,823 comments per month (on average).

While most of that activity was on the main Tech-focused site (Lunduke.Locals.com), the other two sites saw some fantastic activity -- especially ConservativeNerds.Locals.com, which is really coming into its own.

Lunduke.Locals.com

Posts: 6,956
Comments: 37,659

ConservativeNerds.Locals.com

Posts: 2,061
Comments: 6,638

NerdyEntertainment.Locals.com

Posts: 573
Comments: 1,580

Plus a whole lot of "Likes".  182,512 of 'em on Lunduke.Locals.com this year.  That's a lot of... liking.

The vast majority of those posts and comments were from all of you.  A massive, active, nerdy, awesome smelling community.

I mean.  Woah.

(There's plenty of other awesomeness to talk about.  The shows.  The comics.  But, after talking about the off-the-charts-ness of the articles and the community... my head exploded.  Scanners style.)

2023 was the year The Lunduke Journal became an absolute force within the Tech world.  Fantastic growth, investigative journalism that dominated the Tech News industry, and a community that is -- in a word -- Fantasti-nerdi-glorious.

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