Howdy y’all. I just wanted to send a quick note that real traffic (as in humans, not search bots) accounted for 343,000 pages in 2008, amounting to more than 500,000 hits last year! Not too shabby, but I’m working to make 2009 the best year so far.

I don’t have a great way for tracking RSS usage stats, but since the feed URL is polled thousands of times a month, I am going to assume the real reach of RTFA is something more than 343,000.

I want to take a moment to thank the whole editorial team (fumf and placidwater) for their awesome work! The word is getting around, and RTFA is getting thousands of real visits a month.

Also, I want to thank our readers and subscribers: thanks! You contribute some great comments! If you like our work, please include RTFA.net in your blogroll, and help us spread the word around.

Almost no one has registered as a subscriber, and now RTFA is getting repeated registrations from a big Polish cellphone provider. I’m not aware of a current wordpress vulnerability, but all the same, I think I will close off subscriber registration.

I really appreciate the subscriptions, so please use the “subscribe” link at the top of the page to grab the RSS feed. Thanks! Sorry if this is an inconvenience for anyone…