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TheRealFriendsOver40Lounge

SFW chanel, Over40, NO selling, OF, adult ads, trolls and no thirst traps. · #TheRealFriendsOver40_TheRealFriendsOver40Lounge:reddit.com · channel c2_1vkf

The chat channel attached to r/TheRealFriendsOver40 ran for 422 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 759,268 messages from 3,875 people.

23 Sep 2024opened18 Nov 2025last message
422 days · 1814.4 msg/day
759,268Messages
3,875People
32,215Images
227,201Reactions
9,067Replies
12,863Deleted

Every day the room was open

The room held its activity to the end.

Peak was 5,084 messages on 19 Nov 2024. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

23 Sep 202418 Nov 2025
busiest days middling quiet

What was actually being said

The room's own vocabulary

These are the words this channel used far more than the rest of the archive did — the in-jokes, names and shorthand that only make sense if you were in here. Median message length: 28 characters.

TermUses
belthezare4,986
lol33,500
savetheturtles4,693
bella9,665
beholdmygarden3,056
i'm17,224
morning14,078
hey14,794
hi15,329
creddittor1,988
oh12,296
siren5,196
MeasureValue
Median message length28
90th percentile77
Total words2,537,719
Messages asking a question10.6%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 8 to 1 swing between busiest and quietest hour. This was a single-timezone room, awake 20:00–02:00 UTC.

00:0006:0012:0018:0023:00

Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

October is the crossover

October is the month it started losing people faster than it gained them.

09
10
11
12
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
joinedleftbanned

227,201 reactions

How the room responded

joy
93,772
upvote
49,290
care
46,446
wave
30,256
surprise
905
give_upvote
625
table_flip
600
smile
538

6,160 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

snoo_joy2,253snoo_thoughtful924snoo_tongue568snoo_shrug565snoo_surprised471snoo_facepalm345snoo_dealwithit322snoo_trollface167snoo_scream99snoo_wink61

Reddit's chat reaction and sticker sets were removed with the feature. These are preserved copies.

Who was in here

3,875 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 74,630 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 1,058 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
Belthezare74,6309.8%
Significant-Noise48037,3794.9%
Bella5369 mod30,8284.1%
BeholdMyGarden25,3973.3%
savetheturtles112624,3063.2%
thegarycow23,8133.1%
Sigma_Siren23,1123.0%
some_old_Marine20,2832.7%
Sea_Willingness_428417,4512.3%
TheRealSalamnder15,7382.1%
creddittor21615,1492.0%
022ydagr812,8691.7%

Named here because you posted publicly in an open community channel. If you'd rather not be, ask us to remove you.

18 Nov 2025 · the end of the log

The last thing anyone said here

No announcement, no goodbye. The archive simply stops. Nobody in this conversation knew it was the last one.

Sigma_Siren@RedditNorse
RedditNorseHeyoo
Sigma_SirenHow are you dear
RedditNorseAlive.. and breathing so I can't complain, been a little busy setting up the new chat for the reddit chat here.
RedditNorseand you Sigma ?
Sigma_SirenWorking as usual
Sigma_SirenI have another structure re-org project I have to finish by the end of the year
022ydagr8image
RedditNorseSeems like there is a pattern there Sigma.. did you not have the same last year
redditWe’re making changes to Reddit Chat to simplify how people connect. As part of these efforts, public chat channels will sunset in mid-November across desktop, mobile web, and the Reddit apps. Learn more(https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15012434519316-What-are-chat-channels)
End of log · 2025-11-18 19:34:49 UTC · no further events recorded

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