What's a "Diary Flow Gauge"? Read this diary on the concept. See this previous diary, for example, to see the introductory material that I'll now start omitting.
The basic purpose of these diaries is to gauge how the pace of diaries here. This can also be used to calculate a "conversion rate" -- how many published diaries make the ReceRec list. (To assess this, I find the 100th ReceRec diary on the Diaries list and see the rank of the latter -- if it's #114, then 100 of the past 114 diaries made the front page.)
To bring people up to date: what I have been calling the "RecRec" list (which goes by the full name of the "Recently Recommended" list) will now be called the "ReceRec" list (pronounced "Reese Wreck"), at least by me.
Note that if you hit this link (also in an icon at the bottom left of each page) you'll see sitemeter stats for the site. Good news is: visits are pretty much constant since last month and page views are up!
The current Diary Flow Rate is below the fold.
As of 9:29 a.m. PST on 2/17/11:
The 50th oldest diary on the ReceRec list was published at 4:06 a.m., 325 minutes previously.
The 100th oldest diary on the ReceRec list was published at 6:43 p.m., 886 minutes previously.
The 100th diary posted on the Diaries List was posted at 8:16 p.m., 793 minutes previously.
Temporary longitudinal table:
Recently Rec'd (RR) 50th and 100th diary, Diary List (DL) 100th diary (measured in minutes since diary in question was posted)
2/14 day: RR(50) 210 ... RR(100) n/a ... DL(100) 754
2/14--15: RR(50) n/a ... RR(100) n/a ... DL(100) n/a
2/15 day: RR(50) 478 ... RR(100) 916 ... DL(100) 579
2/15--16: RR(50) 382 ... RR(100) 578 ... DL(100) 524
2/16 day: RR(50) 400 ... RR(100) 945 ... DL(100) 821
2/16--17: RR(50) 278 ... RR(100) 549 ... DL(100) 492
2/17 day: RR(50) 325 ... RR(100) 886 ... DL(100) 793
Coming soon: proper tables!