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Zambezi Talk

#Zambia_Zambezi_Talk:reddit.com · channel c2_yw4

The chat channel attached to r/Zambia ran for 525 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 3,409 messages from 674 people.

12 Jun 2024opened18 Nov 2025last message
525 days · 6.5 msg/day
3,409Messages
674People
140Images
1,042Reactions
1,065Replies
594Deleted

Every day the room was open

The room held its activity to the end.

Peak was 84 messages on 10 Aug 2024. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

12 Jun 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: 31 characters.

TermUses
zambia101
zambian60
lusaka46
zambians24
anyone133
it's119
i'm120
people150
kitwe15
lol99
rzambia12
guys92
MeasureValue
Median message length31
90th percentile115
Total words14,854
Messages asking a question20.3%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 10 to 1 swing between busiest and quietest hour. This was a single-timezone room, awake 14:00–20:00 UTC.

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Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

It never lost more people than it gained

Departures stayed below arrivals every month. What fell away was new arrivals: 61 joined in the first month, 4 in the last.

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joinedleftbanned

1,042 reactions

How the room responded

joy
607
upvote
276
care
66
wave
22
facepalm
14
give_upvote
11
grimacing
7
heart_eyes
6

22 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

snoo_joy5upvote4snoo_dealwithit2unknown2snoo_cry2snoo_sad1snoo_shrug1snoo_simple_smile1snoo_trollface1snoo_scream1

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

Who was in here

674 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 183 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 295 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
ayookip mod1835.4%
Rich_Illustrator37871825.3%
LongjumpingRub48471053.1%
Significant_Fish7530962.8%
pain_point802.3%
Bitter-Weakness-6223702.1%
Acrobatic-Fortune-99 mod621.8%
Icy-Yogurt-3274551.6%
According-Taro-6141541.6%
[deleted]441.3%
Extension_Upstairs76431.3%
hallo-und-tschuss361.1%

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.

According-Taro-6141Hello humans
SavageJ97Hello yall
LongjumpingRub4847If it isn’t the one Redditor who inspires me to be like him.
Mat_ildah-Hey y'all
SimpleEfficiency6932Shiettttt
Rich_Illustrator3787Be wise Smart people know what they want. Wise people know what they don't want. It's very difficult to deal with smart people. Smart people use their heart while the wise use their brains. That's why machines will always be smart because they don't have hearts. They have chips and no brain as their motor control. Humans beings should be inherently WISE. Use brains in everything. It's easy to deal with a wise person because they know exactly what they don't want. Just saying "No" is enough. -Jack Ma said
ShadowRossHello folks!
ShadowRossI'm planning an event this weekend and I'm looking for portable toilets for hire. How much and where can I find them?
DetectiveSuch957Really?
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 19:57:44 UTC · no further events recorded

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