This is a timeline for Daily Kos, from first issue thru about the beginning of 2017. It’s here because I didn’t want to swamp TrueBlueMajority’s comment section in his DKtionary diary.
"I came for the politics; I stayed for the community." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/3/18/1195064/-This-mouse-is-moseying-but-no-goodbyes Kaily Joy Gay
- DK Version 1: DailyKos.net May, 2002
- DK Version 2: DailyKos.com October, 2003
- DK Version 3: First major site overhaul: June, 2005
- DK Version 4: Catching up with site growth: February, 2011
- DK Version 5: Major coding update and site redesign: November, 2015
HISTORY
TIMELINE (Note: as much as possible, this has been done as a series of linkbacks to the original writing on Daily Kos. It should be noted that there have never been rules on Daily Kos against strong language of any kind, so much of this content may qualify as NSFW, especially in the Comments section. Also note: Images have not survived as well as text, for the most part; valid image links are almost nonexistent until about 2012.)
DK1: DailyKos.net May 26, 2002
Day 1
I am progressive. I am liberal. I make no apologies. I believe government has an obligation to create an even playing field for all of this country's citizens and immigrants alike. I am not a socialist. I do not seek enforced equality. However, there has to be equality of opportunity, and the private sector, left to its own devices, will never achieve this goal.
Posted May 26, 2002 12:57 PM by kos
1,000th post - 2/21/2003;
30,000+ comments, a million+ page views
Comments overloaded servers - 3/1/2003;
changed to dedicated server for the site — Outgrown hosting service, setting up solo 7/1/2003
Dailykos Version 1 officially closed on October 15, 2003 with a total of 4,570 posts over a period of 17 months, shifting to the current site designation at dailykos.com on October 13, 2003 because the original site architecture had been thoroughly outgrown. Commenters can be roughly estimated from the first month's signup at Version 2, which was 3,211 users. One harbinger of future growth seems to have been the decision that if the site couldn't handle the traffic, it needed to be expanded.
DK2: Diaries for everybody!
2003 — 2004
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2003/10/13/1/-MT-version-of-dKos-is-now-obsolete) In 2003, Scoop was a heavy duty content management system. With a number of fairly successful tweaks, it survived intact, though with increasing problems, until 2015, when work was begun on an entirely new system. The beginning of User IDs, MOJO ratings, and the 0 to 4 Comment Rating system. Note: Only anecdotal evidence of that last has survived the transitions to the current pages, and it will have to be taken on faith that such a system a) existed and b) was accepted as a workable method of rating comments.
NB: The term "diary" for an article published in Daily Kos dates from the original .net site, and various and sundry people have been trying to replace it since Version 2 began (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2003/10/15/66/-Diaries). It seems to be a persistent survivor.
The first hint of overwhelming success (i.e., underestimated hardware levels to handle the traffic) appear in January, 2004, after two entire months in the new venue. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/1/8/8221/-Site-weirdness-poll-charts-Dean-the-movie-star)
February 2004 - 20,000 page views per hour (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/2/3/13939/-Fair-warning-and-Open-Thread)
June, 2004 - it became possible to edit a diary (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/6/4/32153/-Diaries-are-now-editable)
August 2004 - Site up to 200,000 daily visits, post convention (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/8/5/42251/-A-brief-history)
Diaries can now be recommended separately from comments (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/8/10/43397/-Recommended-diaries)
September 2004 - Site over capacity again during/after Republican convention - waiting for 2 more servers (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/9/8/49474/-Site-update-and-open-thread)
9/29 - 400,000 visits/day expected. Site features pruned until new database server is installed. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/9/28/54273/-Open-Thread)
October 2004 - a major statement by kos on community, and worth linking to even today. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/10/3/56123/-On-community)
November 2004 - post election - DK is not a liberal Blog. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/11/15/73807/-Memo-to-the-world)
MOJO, ratings, Recommended list, diaries all need to be reworked (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/11/29/76758/-Our-master-planned-community)
In the first year (2003-4) on the new site, 55,428 posts were made, with 1,062,536 comments in response, from 23,627 signed up users. Over 350 of those original users were still active diarists in 2017. And sometime around the end of the year, the site began making enough money through ad revenue to support both itself and kos. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/28/102705/-Advertising)
2005
January begins looking at revising the ratings system (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/1/3/83263/-What-to-do-about-ratings)
Subscriptions available that let users turn off the ads (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/1/19/86649/-Daily-Kos-subscriptions)
February: Half a million pageviews per day (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/2/3/90040/-Hotlist)
June: Pie Fight! (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/6/5/119494/-Pie-fight-ad)
DK3
2005
June 23-July20 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/6/23/124815/-New-Design)
August 18 Site growth at 5-10% per week (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/8/18/139532/-New-server-finally-arrives)
August 24 Rant by markos on not being a kingmaker (one of several) (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/8/24/141018/-I-m-a-guy-with-a-blog)
August 30-Sept 9 Katrina coverage (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/8/30/142664/-Another-Katrina-open-thread)
October 10 New Daily Kos logo (image of guy with flag from dk4 page) (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/10/10/155640/-Site-happenings)
Calendar year 2005: 89,221 diaries and 2,101,851 comments from approximately 30,000 active users out of 73,847 signed up..
2006
January: First "Official Guidelines" for diaries (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/1/3/175860/-Meta-Madness-Diaries)
- One week waiting period between joining and diarying introduced
- diaries limited to one per day
- Daily Kos FAQ for Version 3 begun
- Comment function updated - change from 0-5 rating to Recommend/Troll Rate
June:
Site changes; (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/6/2/215258/-Site-changes)
- 3 month waiting period for Trusted User status;
- limit of 2 troll ratings/day per user;
- autoban at zero MOJO instituted;
Description/s Post Mortem on first Yearly Kos (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/6/27/222483/-YearlyKos)
August:
One Million visits today (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/8/8/234439/-MyDD-is-down-It-s-Lieberman-s-fault)
100,000 registered users (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/8/9/235140/-100K)
[Eleven years later, of those: 3,600 banned; 70,000 wrote one or more comments; 25,000 wrote one or more diaries (Categories have some overlap.) Daily Kos database search.]
Meta diary on media attacks on Daily Kos ;) (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/8/24/239641/-Daily-Kos-is-the-new-Michael-Moore)
September 25 Banner ad tryout; current paid staff of 3 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/9/25/249743/-Banner-ad)
October:
Pushback on community outing of a member (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/10/11/256217/-Privacy)
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/10/18/258787/-Don-t-send-me-irrelevant-crap-Please)
November/december:
- Site performance expectations (10 servers) (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/11/7/267817/-Site-performance-advisory)
- Ad policy (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/11/14/271177/-Advertising-guidelines)
- Begging diaries (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/11/17/272216/-Do-I-need-to-ban-personal-fundraising-solicitations)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/11/28/275340/-2007-Contributing-Editors
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/11/30/276171/-The-Class-of-2007
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/12/6/278327/-Warnings Automated warnings in place
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/12/12/280223/-Who-represents-Daily-Kos
[Calendar year 2006: 113,525 total users; 102,359 diaries; 4,563,163 comments]
2007
January: Copyright standards https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/1/18/292299/-Copyright
February: Discussion of meta https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/2/11/300951/-Lifting-the-veil-a-bit
March: New masthead; not just kos anymore https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/9/309986/-dKos-is-officially-a-group-blog
April:
- Advertising https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/4/26/327876/-Google-ads
- Diary rules https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/4/28/328834/-Rules-matter
May: Reader stats survey https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/5/9/333036/-Blog-reader-survey
August: Subscriptions https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/8/30/378368/-Subscriptions
October: Funding Cheers & Jeers https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/10/5/394397/-You-can-save-Cheers-Jeers
November: Picking contributing editors https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/11/13/410014/-2008-Contributing-Editors
December: Site statistics/Pageviews https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/12/30/427597/-Daily-Kos-traffic-through-the-years
[Calendar year 2007: 144,709 total users; 94,306 diaries; 3,847,981 comments December Unique Views per Quantcast: 542,612]
2008
January: Troll Ratings; Hunter http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/01/02/428896/-An-Exegesis-for-Troll-Ratings
February: Susan Gardner as Executive Editor: staff total - 21 (mostly unpaid) https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/2/7/451697/-An-announcement
October: JED's column at DK https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/10/15/631689/-Jed-joins-Daily-Kos
December:
New staff, future plans https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/12/4/669306/-Lithium-Cola-contributing-editor
[200,000th user signed up December 12, 2008
Calendar year 2008: 199,538 total users; 155,400 diaries; 9,626,950 comments
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 1,672,589
2009
Status of site projects, real employees with benefits; etc. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/1/12/683163/-I-m-back
Editors going to real names, mostly. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/2/10/695865/-On-that-name-thing
Rules for Community Moderation: Director of Community - Meteor Blades; We've been running the whole thing without rules for 7 years now, and maybe we'd better do something. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/5/31/737141/-Your-new-community-overlord
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/6/27/747350/-Saturday-hate-mail-apalooza first time - Note NSFW; continued regularly until February, 2013
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/7/29/759265/-Daily-Kos-still-jumping-the-shark
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/9/30/788136/-Brief-DK4-update
[Calendar year 2009: 228,612 users; 92,670 diaries; 7,000,000 plus comments - estimated
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 846,484]
2010
alpha testing on DK4; new writers https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/1/7/822717/-State-of-Daily-Kos
Kos takes questions; mostly meta, but interesting. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/2/3/833547/-Daily-Kos-town-hall-with-kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/3/18/847477/-Daily-Kos-has-most-loyal-news-community-on-the-tubes
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/5/18/867316/-Announcing-new-editor-featured-writers plus dk4 updates
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/5/26/870145/-Happy-Birthday-to-us
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/10/927712/-DK4-open-beta-just-days-away,-and-why-we-did-it
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/12/15/929012/-Mojo-and-DK4 Beta version goes live; MOJO changes
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/12/15/929282/-DK4-is-now-an-open-beta
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/12/19/930251/-DK4-reaction-one-week-later
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/12/26/931705/-DK4-status-update
Calendar year 2010: 288,093 users; 75,057 diaries; 5,644,114 comments
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 1,673,362
250,000th user ID June 28, 2010
2011
Recent list is about to be history (giggle); added the Follow list; Comments page; Groups https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/1/2/932863/-Daily-Kos-beta-On-trolls-and-unlimited-diaries
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/1/9/934528/-DK4-update-and-responses-to-more-community-concerns
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/1/23/938333/-DK4-two-weeks-from-transition
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/1/30/939930/-DK4-Sunday-update-Are-we-REALLY-launching-next-Saturday
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/3/940928/-Are-we-really-launching-DK4-this-weekend-No-One-more-week
DK4 — 2011
February
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/6/941648/-Final-DK4-update-You-don-t-need-to-learn-new-functionality-to-use-DK4
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/14/944201/-So-this-thing-works
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/14/944447/-I-was-wrong-about-diaries
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/27/950661/-DK4-The-early-transition-metrics
June
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/6/29/989466/-Site-update-and-welcoming-Denise
July
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/7/15/994977/-Big-changes-in-Daily-Kos-editor-workflow
August
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/8/8/1004701/-Announcing-Daily-Kos-radio
Another attempt to get rid of the use of "diaries"; much commentary on moderation https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/8/25/1010505/--Posts-it-is
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/8/30/1011917/-On-tip-jars-and-auto-ban
september
Kos temporarily handling moderation while new system is rolled out. Addition of Help Desk outlined. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/6/1014024/-New-Daily-Kos-design-update-tonight-and-meet-your-new-admin-moderator
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/6/1014163/-On-the-Help-Desk
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/7/1014275/-On-my-new-moderation-duties
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/7/1014324/--No-ratings NR system.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/8/1014670/-Purge-update
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/14/1016965/-Participating-in-someone-else-s-diary
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/18/1018110/-Recap-new-community-behavior-guidelines
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/9/19/1017287/-The-development-queue
November
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/24/1039698/-Blogging-for-Dummies-Unraveling-the-Mysteries-of-Daily-Kos
december
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/12/12/1044516/-First-nag-and-Hunter-on-the-Holidays Subscription drive
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/12/19/1046905/-Subscription-update-and-American-Taliban
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/12/20/1047445/-Daily-Kos-diary-is-top-Facebook-story-of-nbsp-2011
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/12/27/1049036/-Last-week-of-the-subscription-drive-and-the-Evolution-of-Everything
[Calendar year 2011: 327,453 users; 77,112 diaries; 4,425,420 comments
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 2,388,950
300,000th user ID February 4, 2011]
2012
march
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/3/6/1071693/-The-latest-meta-bullshit-and-your-single-warning
may
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/5/17/1092552/-Top-community-content-of-2012
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/01/09/1053088/-An-open-letter-to-the-people-who-hate-Obama-more-than-they-love-America
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/5/26/1094624/-10-years-10-freakin-years Anniversary
july
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/7/17/1110701/-Announcing-the-new-image-uploader-and-photo-library
May 2012 - the month the spammers found (and started flooding into) Daily Kos.
January: 2,646 February: 2,763 March: 3,460 April signups: 2,711 May signups: 32,175 June signups: 49,026 July signups: 51,875 August signups: 47,582 September signups: 51,820 October signups: 56,453 November signups: 9,911 December signups: 5,110
real to spam ratio: 1:25 Approximate base UID#: 350,000.
october
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/10/29/1152401/-Manhattan-goes-dark-and-so-might-Daily-Kos
november
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/9/1159652/-The-most-awesome-things-about-Daily-Kos-2012 Current stats and 5-year Quantcast chart.
December
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/7/1168066/-Image-uploading-now-available-to-everyone
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/12/12/1169224/-Welcome-to-our-first-annual-War-on-Christmas-fundraiser
[Calendar year 2012: 642,985 total users; 82,058 diaries; 4,117,559 comments
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 3,308,628; October high for the year: 6,776,688]
2013
january
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/1/21/1180867/-Can-We-Haz-Some-Moderation-Please-Pretty-Please
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/1/21/1181031/-Moderation-Be-careful-what-you-ask-for
february
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/2/12/1186652/-One-space-after-periods-people
april
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/17/1202476/-Continued-Statement-of-Opposition-to-Racist-Labels-Used-by-Kossacks-to-Criticize-President-Obama
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/4/24/1204487/-The-Daily-Kos-community-is-in-charge-whether-I-or-you-like-it-or-not
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/4/25/1204816/-Ask-me-anything
May
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/5/24/1211491/-Ask-me-anything-about-anything (kos)
https://www.dailykos.com/news/AskMeAnything Links to all diaries with this tag - 113 at present count (2017)
July
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/7/2/1220632/-Introducing-our-new-Daily-Kos-activism-team
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/7/2/1220677/-Class-of-2013-featured-writers
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/7/10/1222534/-Tapping-into-our-community-s-creativity-and-entrepreneurship
august
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/8/14/1231172/-DRAFT-community-guidelines-comment-period
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/8/23/1233352/-New-community-guidelines-final-draft
october
elfling - building the next version https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/10/18/1248513/-Ask-Me-Anything
Stats, facebook, email list https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/11/4/1253048/-Wherein-I-talk-about-how-awesome-Daily-Kos-is
december
Preview of DK5, Navajo as Director of Community Building https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/12/19/1263952/-2014-The-year-of-community
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/12/27/1265583/-For-those-who-share-your-diaries-we-salute-you
Ray Pensador; how not to write a diary about trolls. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/12/10/1261656/-How-I-Got-Rid-Of-Trolls
[Calendar year 2013: 987782 total users; 62,186 diaries; 3,230,204 comments
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 5,020,167]
2014
february
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/2/7/1275900/-Ask-me-anything-even-that-one-thing Early life in Guatamala; thanks to users; etc.
march
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/3/6/1282635/-Image-library-now-open-to-everyone
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/3/14/1284786/-Ask-me-Anything-Even-about-ugly-meta Re: DOV diary Why are you here?
May -
Elliot Rodgers/Isla Vista killings - women's diaries became a major factor/exploded at DK https://www.dailykos.com/search?story_type=&search_type=search_stories&text_type=any&text_expand=contains&text=isla+vista&usernames=%28usernames%29&tags=%28tags%29&time_type=time_published&time_begin=5%2F24%2F2014&time_end=8%2F31%2F2014&submit=Search
June
Current stats; comments are extreme meta about two controversial diaries and multiple bannings. (trix33, zhenren, etc.) https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/6/20/1308452/-Ask-Me-Anything-because-you-had-to-get-it-off-your-chest
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/6/23/1308497/-First-look-at-DK5
july
Notes on email lists, FaceBook, comparisons to other sites. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/7/3/1311540/-Daily-Kos-setting-traffic-records-every-month
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/7/19/1315048/-Netroots-Nation-is-going-to-Arizona-Daily-Kos-is-not
september
Site statistics, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/9/19/1330967/-Ask-me-anything-about-anything-last-chance-until-after-elections
October
Site statistics, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/10/6/1333914/-Daily-Kos-September-2014-update-the-not-so-calm-before-the-storm
december
Siab: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/12/18/1352657/-A-WiseAss-s-Introduction-to-Diarying-at-Daily-Kos
[Calendar year 2014: 1,184,801 total users; 58,445 diaries; 2,990,180 comments
New Users: 197,019; Commenters: ~ 8,500; Estimated lurkers ~26,000;
Potential spammers: ~170,000
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 7,061,567
1,000,000th user ID March 3, 2014 - 70-80% new accounts spam]
2015
january
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/1/19/1357981/-Daily-Kos-end-of-year-update-and-a-peek-into-2015 Site stats
DK5 Beta live June, 2015
7/1/2015 Daily Kos Elections blogging began https://www.dailykos.com/user/Daily%20Kos%20Elections
july
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/7/24/1405389/-Beta-site-update-and-yes-YOU-are-the-focus-group
august
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/8/3/1408417/-Daily-Kos-moved-to-Oakland
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/8/21/1414091/-Only-assholes-question-the-identity-of-others Defending Shaun King
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/8/24/1414483/-Doubling-down-on-the-justice-beat-Meet-Josie-Duffy
september
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/9/8/1419440/-Daily-Kos-update-September-2015 Stats; 37 employees
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/9/9/1419872/-On-HR-s-flags-and-a-more-positive-community Flags made anonymous - almost.
October
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/28/1441756/-Meet-Thandi-and-Vann-our-newest-staff-writers
DK5 - 11/7/2015
elfling https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/7/1446584/-Looks-like-we-made-it
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/8/1446913/-Early-DK5-conversion-thoughts
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/9/1447632/-DK5-update-Day-2
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/10/1448388/-DK5-Update-Day-3-Why-fix-what-wasn-t-broke-Because-it-was-Broken
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/12/1449166/-DK5-Update-Day-5-The-pause-before-the-pre-Thanksgiving-blitz
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/13/1449546/-DK5-Update-Day-6-Early-metrics-and-a-recap
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/17/1451233/-DK5-Update-Day-10-a-new-story-page-layout
december
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/16/1460817/-DK5-update-metrics-priorities-and-what-s-coming-soonest
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/26/1461522/-A-photo-tour-of-the-new-Daily-Kos-offices
[Calendar year 2015: 1,426,307 total users; 62,506 diaries; 3,180,187 comments
New Users: 241,506; Commenters: ~ 8,000; Lurkers ~ 24,000; Potential spammers: ~200,000
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 7,817,838]
2016
january
Help Desk staffed up to better handle Moderation issues https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/11/1467524/-Time-to-welcome-the-2016-class-of-Contributing-Editors
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/29/1476866/-DK5-let-s-check-in-on-the-metrics-and-be-nice-to-the-new-people
march
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/4/1495813/-March-15-and-Daily-Kos-transition-to-General-Election-footing Kos puts his foot down about election diaries. Chaos (and pie) ensues.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/8/1498008/-March-15-applies-to-everyone-and-I-mean-everyone More Pie
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/16/1502026/-The-primaries-might-go-on-but-we-have-our-nominee MP
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/25/1506119/-The-State-of-Daily-Kos-is-pretty-f-n-amazing Staff photo; stats; DK5 notes;
april
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/18/1516946/-About-that-pesky-flag-and-uprate-abuse
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/26/1520172/-Stop-the-paid-shill-accusations
august
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/4/1556658/-The-amazing-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-Daily-Kos Stats
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/15/1560484/-The-new-updated-and-improved-Daily-Kos-Rules-of-the-Road
october
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/14/1582404/-Housekeeping-note-transitioning-to-our-own-poll-aggregating-model-Clinton-still-crushing-it Note: It was wrong, but consistent. Ah, well.
November
Trump won https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/8/1593895/-We-lick-our-wounds-we-grieve-and-then-we-fucking-fight
[Calendar year 2016: 1,637,708 users; 88,797 diaries; 5,663,370 comments
New Users: 211,401; Commenters: ~15,000; Lurkers: ~ 45,000; Potential spammers: ~150,000
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 11,296,892
(Compare to 2008 elections September high for the year: 1,926,725)]
2017
2,000,000 user members: July 26, 2017. Spambot accounts conservatively estimated at 1,700,000 (SWAG #, as in Swinging Wild-Assed Guess - no link)
FaceBook policy change results:
Daily Kos Unique Views - high for the year in February per Quantcast: 18,228,262
December Unique Views per Quantcast: 6,339,701
Other sites for the same dates
Politico: 33m to 22m
The Hill: 32m to 23
rolling stone: 27m to 17m
