First-hand: how was the year on Habré

This year was not easy . Habrahabr spent its eleventh year productively and interestingly. We improved services, redesigned, held seminars, conferences, met users from the sandbox, - in general, developed services as they could. UFO flashed here and there, but now it is on refueling in the hangar, and we have a minute to talk about the results of the year - only first-hand.


By the way, if you want to know the same thing about Giktayms - you are here .

Some bare figures.

Publications

	2016	2017
Total publications ') Of them: Through the sandbox Translations Tutorials news Megaposta Vote	13,094 1,413 1,533 1 208 205 36 five	11,631 1,356 1 602 1,147 12 56 9
Of them published	12,255 (~ 33 per day)	10,960 (~ 30 per day)
Hidden in drafts	839 (~ 6.4% of all records)	671 (~ 5.7% of all entries)
With a positive rating Negative rating	11 907 (~ 90% of all entries) 809 (~ 6.1%)	10,803 (~ 92.8% of all entries) 589 (~ 5%)
In the marcdown	1,322	1 920
In recovery mode	555	567
Have a vote in the publication	607	487
Had comments	11,146	10,029
There are voices	12,892	11,505
Bookmarked	12,800	11,443
Total length of all records	150 051 882 characters	152,619,233 characters
The total rating of all entries Of which total votes That is all the advantages And cons	200 879 304 787 252,833 51 954	223,136 305,854 264,495 41 359

In 2017, 11,637 publications were created, of which 10,965 were published. In 2016, there were slightly more publications - 13,094 were created, but only 12,255 were published. For various reasons (registered, randomly placed, with violations, etc.) in 672 publications turned out to be draft copies, and last year - 839. This is approximately 5% of the total, which, in fact, is also quite a lot. But in general, users have become kinder - the number of pluses has increased, and the number of minuses has decreased.

Of all the published materials, 1,148 publications received the mark “Tutorial” (in 2016, 1,208).

Despite numerous requests to add markdown markup (which we added at the beginning of 2016), for 2017 the year only 1 921 publications were written, that is, only 16.5% of the total (1,322 in 2016). We hope that in 2018 we will correct this alignment in favor of the WYSIWYG editor, for which we have big plans.

With a decrease in the number of publications in 2017, their total length was 152,738,122 characters (in 2016 this figure was 150,051,882). This is approximately 84,854 A4 sheets, that is, almost 170 packs (500 sheets each) or a volume 8.84 meters thick (based on the thickness of a sheet of A4 paper 0.104 mm). Until the football field still do not reach, right?

If we calculate the average number of characters per publication, then in 2017 the volume of material averaged 13,125 characters, and in 2016 - 11,459 characters, that is, 7.3 and 6.4 sheets, respectively. It's nice that neither Twitter nor Instagram have spoiled Habr's readers - they still love Longrid and read even sooo long articles (which is confirmed by the results of our survey). And they are so fond that the materials with only one video are mercilessly negative, and the gurus of IT conferences do not post even ultra hardcore videos without decoding. Read useful, do not argue.

Users

At the time of publication of the record on Habré, 841,122 users are registered, of whom 146343 (17.39%) are men, 12163 (1.44%) are women and 682,616 (81.15%) are undecided.

	2016	2017
Registered for the year Full rights ReadOnly Read & Comment	93,894 (~ 257 per day) 1,854 (~ 5 per day) 88 318 (~ 242 per day) 3,579 (~ 10 per day)	107,591 (~ 295 per day) 1,548 (~ 4 per day) 103,146 (~ 283 per day) 2,827 (~ 8 per day)
Karma newbies Positive Negative	1,488 540	1,235 370
Transferred to RO (sanctions)	67	121

In 2017, 107,649 users registered (full-fledged, ReadOnly and Read & Comment), which is 12.7% more than in 2016. In total, 2,534 invitations were issued this year, of which 1,901 are users and UFOs, 633 are companies. At the same time, 164 invitations are in a pending state (issued, but not activated). An invitation can hang up for many reasons, but as long as it is not activated, you can always withdraw it and send it to someone who really needs it.

	2016	2017
Total invitations issued	2,449	2,534
Of these, users and UFOs issued	1,993	1,901
Issued by companies	456	633
Hung up	125	164

Every day 3-4 people get a full account through a sandbox publication - 1,356 users registered this way for a year, and 1,320 publications were rejected.

Hubs and Authors

The “Programming” hub became the most popular hub in 2017 (it had 1,398 publications, that is 12.7% of all posted; 44,184 comments), and you can compare the tops in 2016 and 2017 in the tables below. The most concise in 2017 turned out to be publications on information security, and the most rated and long - publications on game development. It seems that there is a considerable merit of PatientZero with its detailed and interesting translations - he wrote 178 publications with an average rating of +42. He turned out to be the most prolific author of the year. Behind him comes the corporate author ru_vds (169 publications) and m1rko (130 publications and the average rating for them is +44). Even among the champions in fecundity, we can mention the user sp1nfox , who created 66 test publications to discover an interesting vulnerability on Habré, which we promptly closed. And the author of this virtual and the catcher of bugs was Mehdzor , for which he thanks.

Miraculously (in fact, by returning the prodigal Megamind), “Internet marketing”, which hit the top in 2016, naturally failed to withstand the competition and left 2017 rating hardcore. “System administration” took off from 9th place to 4th place, and this is deserved: many articles on DevOps, high-load systems, server technologies and ITSM have been published.

“Development for Android” dropped out of the rating in 2017, lost its position and mobile development as a whole, but immediately “Machine learning” came in 9th place, and it seems that in 2018 it will rise even higher - except for tutorials and practical articles, this section get interesting and exciting analysis of tasks from hakatons and competitions. "IT-infrastructure" entered the rating immediately from 6th place - this is a consequence of a large number of articles on hardware and software for business.

By the way, the most popular tags were javascript, python, java, android, development, linux, programming, c ++, php, ios.

	2016 year	Number of publications	Number of comments	Average comments	Average text size in characters	Average rating
one	Programming	1,459	49,792	34	14,526	20
2	Website development	1,177	30,840	26	14 330	18
3	Information Security	912	20,409	22	9,621	18
four	Javascript	740	22 692	31	14,258	20
five	Mobile Application Development	623	9,774	sixteen	12,792	14
6	Algorithms	505	13,719	27	16,622	27
7	Android development	484	7,217	15	12,470	15
eight	Game development	472	9 047	nineteen	14 462	22
9	System administration	458	9,737	nineteen	13,572	sixteen
ten	Internet Marketing	457	2 907	6	8,584	13

One year later:

	2017 year	Number of publications	Number of comments	Average comments	Average text size in characters	Average rating
one	Programming	1,398	44 184	32	14,824	24
2	Website development	907	28,295	31	14,743	22
3	Information Security	826	23,848	29	11,835	24
four	System administration	818	15 274	nineteen	12,758	17
five	Javascript	813	24 520	thirty	14,860	nineteen
6	IT infrastructure	785	11,550	15	12 380	15
7	Mobile Application Development	599	9,400	sixteen	13,184	18
eight	Game development	553	10 124	18	19 131	28
9	Machine learning	529	8,226	sixteen	17,231	25
ten	Server administration	517	8,647	17	12,783	sixteen

Companies

The following companies posted the most publications in 2016:

2016	2017
215 - Microsoft	210 - Mail.Ru Group
204 - Mail.Ru Group	201 - JUG.ru Group
173 - ESET NOD32	174 - Everyday Tools
138 - Intel	169 - RUVDS.com
138 - JUG.ru Group	153 - Microsoft
125 - Edison	95 - IT GRAD
123 - Ua-hosting.company	87 - Kaspersky Lab
120 - Positive Technologies	81 - Positive Technologies
101 - 1cloud.ru	80 - Yandex
93 - IT Grad	79 - 1cloud.ru

Most of all, the total blog post rating was at:

2016	2017
8,713 - Mail.Ru Group (204 publications) or 4.33% of the total rating of all publications for the year	10 124 - Mail.Ru Group (210 posts) or 4.53% of the total rating of all publications for the year
4,461 - Edison (125 publications)	6 577 - JUG.ru Group (201 publications)
4,297 - Microsoft (215 publications)	5,545 - RUVDS.com (169 publications)
4088 - JUG.ru Group (138 publications)	5271 - Yandex (80 publications)
3,929 - Yandex	3 698 - Badoo
3 907 - PVS-Studio	3,634 - Everyday Tools
3,340 - Ua-hosting.company	3 606 - Microsoft
2 857 - Zfort Group	3 390 - PVS-Studio
2 816 - Mosigra	3 030 - Zfort Group
2 632 - ESET NOD32	2,585 - Pentestit

Comments

	2016	2017
Total	285,159	297,085
Positive Negative	92,880 (32.57%) 18,291 (6.41%)	91,876 (30.92%) 20 580 (6.92%)
Total rating of all Votes were cast Of these advantages Of which cons	218,611 428 355 323 483 104 872	190,397 387,735 289,066 98 669
Removed	337	254
Total Comment Length	76,972,903 characters	104 028 579 characters
Top commentators	2375 - lair 1500 - vintage 1315 - VolCh 1300 - 0xd34df00d 1181 - macin 1148 - delphinum 1132 - fesor 1092 - khim 1052 - mayorovp 894 - navion	3245 - VolCh 3189 - mayorovp 2588 - lair 2082 - khim 1945 - vintage 1807 - Jef239 1609 - 0xd34df00d 1365 - alexeykuzmin0 1279 - michael_vostrikov 1118 - sumanai
As you can see, to get the top commentators, it is enough to leave 3-9 comments daily during the year.

Top 10 most awesome comments in 2017

+ 161 | + 103 | + 86 | + 75 | + 74 | + 73 | + 73 | + 72 | + 71 | + 71

Top 10 most mined comments in 2017

- 137 | - 116 | - 115 | - 91 | - 76 | - 73 | - 71 | - 65 | - 61 | - 60

Happy New Year!

The year of the IT specialist (programmer, tester, sysadmin, etc.) is always more than a year - these are new releases, and endless commits, tickets, unintelligible users, nervous days. Such is the situation in this world, but it is the IT environment that has largely become what determines the near future. Therefore, let us do together the year 2018 so that all technologies and innovations are in the name of good. We, in turn, will try to keep the level, to develop and make Habr and Hiktimes more convenient, more useful and richer.

Happy New Year!