Who came, and what they did
Every picture house kept a book: how many through the door, how many came back, what they stayed for. This is that book, kept by the site about itself — and kept honestly, which means it also says what it cannot know.
Now filed under About the House, alongside the archive and the charity directory. The old address, thesickkitten.com/ledger, still brings you here.
The returns
Counted per browser. A browser that arrives on six different days is one of the first figure and six of the second.
- ····· Through the door Distinct browsers that have ever arrived.
- ····· Admissions One per browser per day, all time.
- ····· Came back Browsers that returned on a later day.
- ····· Keep a kitten Browsers with a cat in the nursery.
- ····· Sat for a portrait Pictures taken away from the studio.
The chapters
Each lane is one chapter of Alley Cat, with The Operator in 3D on the last. The pale bar is everyone who started it; the green inside it is everyone who got the errand home. The distance between the two is the interesting part.
- Chapter One·····
- Chapter Two·····
- Chapter Three·····
- Chapter Four·····
- Chapter Five·····
- Chapter Six·····
- Operator · 3D·····
Standing engagements
The longest runs of consecutive days. Appearing here is opt-in and takes a name — see your own record below. Entries drop off the board after a fortnight away.
- —The board is still being set
Your own record
Kept by your browser, not by us. Nothing below has been sent anywhere unless you put a name on the board.
- Current run
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- Longest run
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- Days here
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- Reels played
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How this is counted, and what that is worth. Your browser keeps its own record and tells the site only that a number should go up by one. No account is created, no identifier is stored against the counts, and nothing is sold or shared. That is why the figures are cheap enough to keep at all.
It also means they are approximate, in ways worth stating rather than hiding. Clearing site data starts a browser over. A phone and a laptop are two visitors. And a run of days is counted by the same browser that reports it, so the board is a matter of good faith — the site checks only that a run cannot be longer than the time that browser has been known to it.
Figures rebuilt hourly.