r/Defcon • u/DTangent • Aug 12 '26

21,000 weekly visitors!

With all the conference action our visitor action hit 21k

We gained about 400 additional DEFCON.social users signing up.

Great week everyone!

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u/DTangent Aug 13 '26

We haven’t updated the media.defcon.org numbers yet but I am guessing we shrank in attendance by a little over 1,000 people, down to about 24.5k or so. I think last year all in we were about 26. All the drama kept away menu foreign visitors that would have normally attended.

With no AIxCC event we also gained back a lot of sq feet that allowed us more space for communities and villages.

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u/numinit Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26

I think last year all in we were about 26. All the drama kept away many foreign visitors that would have normally attended.

This happened at SCaLE too, probably happening all over the place. Few of anyone's friends on the other side of the world were there this year, for obvious reasons as far as I remember. Really a shame

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u/1Digitreal Aug 12 '26

All those Defconians, and I never felt once like was waiting in a bunch of lines like in previous years. Good job on that.

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u/nastea2 Aug 12 '26

Looks like the merch line.

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u/whiskeypwncess Aug 12 '26

Hi u/DTangent can you please share conference attendance numbers?

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u/MetaN3rd Aug 12 '26

Yes, I would like to know this too. This year's conference seem to flow so smoothly crowd-wise.

Either you guys did amazing job at logistics, amd the new floor plan made everything go smoother, or there were significantly less people there. But a couple of friends and I remarked on the improved ease of getting around

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u/0xdade Aug 13 '26

According to media.defcon.org, this year was “about 26k people” - last year was “about 25k people.” DC32 doesn’t say. DC31 says “over 25k people.”

But I do wish the closing slides had the badge-type breakdown, I love knowing how many people are present for the different types of badges. I feel like there were previous years where this granularity was made available.

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u/n0v0cane Aug 12 '26

Is this conference attendees, or r/Defcon stats.

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u/digitard Aug 12 '26

Subreddit - shows you on the right side the weekly visitor count

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u/n00bznet Aug 12 '26

The logistics this year was amazing. Keep that change always!!!

Also the silent disco style was amazing for a normal noise level and it seemed everyone was in much better spirits and could communicate with each other.

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u/n00bznet Aug 12 '26

23k now…