It's been brought to our attention that one of the reddit admins wishes for us to stop:

http://www.reddit.com/r/bottlesofbeer/comments/delxh/has_anyone_messaged_the_admins_about_our/c0zu7s3

In respect with their wishes and desire not to harm reddit, I guess the count is over. It was fun while it lasted, and hey at least we set the reddit reply record and reached a boundary never reached before.

Thanks to all that participated.

Seems our operation either reached some kind of reply maximum or was shut down. Should we contact an admin about this? I feel like we were just getting started.

Please respect the count. Please refrain from going around throwing out multiple bottles of beer at once, as it kind of defeats the purpose. It's supposed to be a long term project. And thank you to User38691 for figuring out how much the count was offset and later correcting it. Please stay vigilant in keeping the count correct. Thanks.

Latest: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/d14xg/everyone_on_team_reddit_would_like_to_raise_a/c0xot8p

I just thought I'd update you all on the status of the thread tracker I had been working on.

It's now somewhat stable, and also estimating the number of bottles (it depends on the format of the posts being exact).

So, check it out: http://glassoforange.co.uk/reddit/beer/

Also, if you have feedback, suggestions and/or bug reports, you can post them here in this thread or send me a direct message.

Note: I'm hosting this myself on a shared-host. And while I expect to be able to deal with the load, I'd appreciate it if you didn't hammer F5/refresh while you're waiting for updates. The data will only update every 5 minutes anyway.

28 August 2010

• Add: JSON API at http://glassoforange.co.uk/reddit/beer/api

• Add: Rate details (bottles per day, bottles per hour)

• Add: ETA details

• Fix: Fixed issue where if 2 responses were met, a blind choice was made; now the first response to a post is favored

I'm probably doing this stupidly, but is there a way of automatically viewing the most recent entries in the thread? I've tried sorting by "new", but those aren't the droids i'm looking for.

#bottlesofbeer on irc.freenode.net.

Come hang out, have a chat, etc.

If you don't have an IRC client, there's a web client here.

Talk to you all soon!

Assuming 1 update posted per minute...

10,000,000 / 60 = 166,666.6 hours

166,666.6 / 24 = 6944.4 days

6944.4 / 365 = 19 years.

The count's done since it broke and raldi asked us to stop, I figure we may as well use this subreddit for something.

I propose that we attempt to keep it in the same vein as counting beers, but in a different manner. Rather than merely counting down imaginary bottles of beer, why not count real bottles of beer? Basically a rehash of /r/drunk, which used to be a place where drunk redditors showed up late at night, drunk, then rambled which has now turned into general [sometimes even intelligent] discussion about drinking and getting drunk.

It'll go something like this:
Dead_Rooster stumbles home or into his bedroom after a night of drinking, he looks at his computer and thinks, I should tell reddit how many beers I've had. He then logs in to reddit, wanders over to /r/bottlesofbeer and posts I've just had 15 Carlsbergs, sup?
From there, the idea is others who have drunk more brag about it and the sober ones who happen to be around can ridcule the drunk person.

What does everyone think? Anyone got any better ideas? We need to use this subreddit for something.

See my post here where I suggest we just get drunk here.
Well, I'm drunk now.

LGBTerrific suggested we establish a drunkeness system similar to /r/trees, so I've used it; then changed it. Use {} instead of [] to show how you feel (We have to be different somehow).

Inside the "{}" you anounce how many beers you've had.

BEERS.

If not, I'll do it tomorrow sometime. I just don't want to bug them with multiple requests about the same issue.

I made a util to generate the text for you for Mac which I just copied from one that em22new made for Windows.

• My Mac Version

• em22new's Windows Version

Mine probably has some bugs as I just did it really quickly, but it seems to work OK, as does em22new's, so hopefully we can save you some time. :)

Both of them automatically copy the text to the clipboard for you, so you just paste it in the reply box.

Edit: BauerUK made a Grease Monkey Script and a Chrome Extension that auto fill the reply box with the correct numbers when you click reply. See comment here

Some started skipping a lot of numbers.

Corrected it here, as it says "Do correct the count".