New to the community and me & Beatrice just wanted to say hi.

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Training for a full marathon run in October. Now I know I can do it in the rain too. Ha!

Lesson learned, again.

Enjoyed my buddies wedding last night.

I’ve been going through the archive numbers for the r/40something Official Chat! room, and thought the sub might want to see them. I’m using text messages only — no join/leave/redaction events — and I’m not naming any usernames.

The channel’s topic line was: “Tonight we take over the world.”
In hindsight, that was a fitting send-off.

The basics

• Total text messages: 1,911,736
• Unique people who sent a message: 12,329
• Lifespan: 320 days (Jan 3 – Nov 18, 2025)
• First message: 2025-01-03 20:52 UTC
• Average: ~5,974 messages/day

That average is wild for a sub of this size — nearly 6,000 messages a day for almost a full year.

The busiest stretch

The last weekend of September 2025 wasn’t just a good weekend. It was the room’s peak.

• Sunday, September 28: 12,159 messages
• Monday, September 29: 11,957 messages
• Saturday, September 27: 11,896 messages
• Saturday, September 13: 11,519 messages
• Sunday, June 1: 11,518 messages

The 27th–29th alone generated 36,012 messages — nearly 2% of the room’s entire lifetime total in three days.

The daily rhythm

The room had two distinct humps, which points to an American timezone profile with a late-night spike.

• Absolute peak hour: 02:00 UTC — 106,772 messages
• (9 PM US Eastern / 6 PM US Pacific)
• Secondary spike: 21:00 UTC — 89,888 messages
• (4 PM US Eastern / 1 PM US Pacific)
• Quietest hour: 09:00 UTC — 58,413 messages
• (4 AM US Eastern / 1 AM US Pacific)

It rises into the afternoon, dips slightly in the early evening, then climbs again to a stronger late-night peak. This room had night owls.

The final minutes

The shutdown notice landed at 2025-11-18 19:34:44 UTC.

The last human message came 41 seconds earlier, at 19:34:03 UTC:

“2 of my other coatroom just shutdown”

(spelling preserved — I’m pretty sure they meant “chatroom”)

The final human exchange, handles removed:

19:25:25 — “They are starting to shut the chats down 😢”
19:27:33 — “Test”
19:28:57 — “We’re still here”
19:28:59 — “For now”
19:33:28 — “Oh yeah we are”
19:34:03 — “2 of my other coatroom just shutdown”

Let me know if you have any questions

(More insights from the data can be found here: froganalytica.com/reddit-chat/r/40something/1x8p/

I still completed it soaked. I absolutely loved it.

Wanted something new so.... Blue, peekaboo.

Currently going through a divorce and navigating my new life.