November 15, 2013. 6:30AM UTC. Community Manager Grace Note posted http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/991/how-is-code-review-doing-right-now.

#We are 100+ days later.

##Rewind

Since mid-November 2013, a number of things have happened:

• A fun tag was created on Meta-CR.
• CR users answered the Call of Duty; incoming, as well as mummified and even some fossilized zombies keep getting shot at every day.
• weekend-challenge marked each weekend of at least the first half of December.
• Winter Bash 2013 was a very successful event that marked the rest of December.
• Over 5.7K stars were spent on over 3,300 starred posts in The 2nd Monitor, the name that was given to our site's main chatroom.
• Stack Exchange Data Explorer made beta sites' data available for some serious querying.
• A picture is worth 1000 words:

_{(2014-02-25 2:30AM UTC)}

###Let's look at the past 15 weeks:

Let's take Stack Overflow as a reference for activity:

This is ours:

Zoom in on the past 15 weeks:

• Question and Answer voting immediately went straight up, and dipped for the Holidays, but never went anywhere near below where it was.
• Two users racing for a [badge:electorate] has had a visible impact on the Question votes, but since a monkey won the race on Jan.27, Question votes have gone down a bit, but remains above 1K.
• New users is on a steadily ascending slope.

##Voting and Reputation Issues

One of the key points of our review was the voting issues:

Voting is an odd beast here. When we reviewed the site, the front page had a dearth of voting. Even looking now, in the last 100 questions asked and the last 100 answers posted, less than 10 of each have scores past 3 with several negatively rated. Now, there are users who vote - vote a lot in fact, as most of the top users have hundreds of votes under their belts (with decent downvote rates as well). But in spite of this, there’s still a humongous bed of users sitting in the ~100-200 reputation range and not actually in the major privilege levels. So for where-ever all the votes are going, it ain’t accumulating.

At the time of this writing, the last 100 questions asked on SEDE have these scores:

• 50 have a score greater than or equal to 3.
• 1 has double-digits upvotes.
• 2 have a negative score.

Last 100 answers posted:

• 42 have a score greater than or equal to 3.
• 3 have double-digits upvotes.
• 1 has a negative score.

I realize this is out-of-sync, ..but we're definitely in another ball park. Let's look at reputation scores.

The inner ring represents the distribution of reputation scores of avid users around November 25, 2013; the middle ring represents the same figures as of Feb.16, and the outer ring is as of Feb.23:

In this conversation, Grace Note noted that "For separate percentages, you have 51% sitting in 150-200, 38% in 200-500, and 6% in 500-1000. That leaves 5% for everyone above 1000."

Well, everything above 1000, as of the latest reading, accounts for 8.6%. Bottom-heavy 51%-38% for <500 has turned into 49.3%-35.6% - avid users are massively moving into the 1K cluster. The fact that this movement hasn't depleted the 500 cluster (which remains in the 6% waters) means the 200's are moving into the 500's.

Page 1 of users page, reputation tab, all-time, ranges between 19.6K and 3.2K. Page 2 is still above 1.5K, page 3 is still above 1K; the distribution of active high-reputation users is starting to look like something. Voters? We have 2 pages for the month.

##Time to Answer

In mid-November, the average time for a question to receive its first answer was somewhere between 8 and 10 hours.

I tried to come up with a query to evaluate that, it's far from accurate and it's aggregating monthly; it's hard to tell if this data is worth anything, but it looks like a decreasing slope:

##Unanswered

One of the most pressing issues with the site was the gigantic pool of unanswered questions. CR was then at around 88% answered, with > 1K questions with no upvoted answers. At the time of this writing, CR is at around 95% answered, with 663 unanswered and 673 with no upvoted answers.

What's the question, you'll ask?

Are we there, yet?