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Long time reader, first time caller. Visit everyday. Thanks DG!
Try to read everyday, always catch up when I don't, came 6-7 years back via the late lamented Greenwich Phantom. I honestly cannot think of another thing I have read consistently for so long bar the bbc news site, so thank you for continuing to invest so much time.

Am I right to think you wrote pretty much the same article at 5m, but different numbers?

dg writes: I know it reads much the same, but plenty of it is different.
Trying to remember when I first started visiting, maybe 8 years ago or so. I think the hook was watching the development of the Olympic Park via DG as we'd left London a few years earlier.

Used an RSS reader for years but now like to click thru to the actual site more often than not, if only to revel in the vast grey lunar landscape of the 2002 blogger template. Didn't comment for years as I didn't have much too add (still don't 99.5% of the time as you can see right now.)

Arrived via Arseblog which shares the same philosophy of producing a genuine quality read pretty much everyday of the year. These days I find blog posts of this type are harder to find and I'd wager that explains the rise in DG readership.

Here's to 7 mill - thanks !
I think I discovered DG on a tube map (?) labelled with bloggers, where he was somewhere near Mile End. I was living there and working in Stratford. I'm in North London now, but so glad I had a reason to discover you, DG... I dip in every day!

dg writes: That was the London Bloggers tube map, an amazing resource for 2002, alas now defunct.
Feeling all proud here to have reached the giddy heights of 22!
The thing that still astonishes me over these years me about DG is how much rich and regular posts still gets published even while he is still doing (I assume) a full time job.

It does make me wonder what if DG "sold out" and made his living purely through this site. How much more posts could we get? But then why change something that clearly is working well and continues to do so even after a decade.
"other days I'm droning on about something you care little about"

The particular beauty of reading DG's daily posts is that the droning on is of such excellent quality.

Sure, posts on topics I was already interested in are easier to leap into, but it is incredible how compelling DG can make pretty much any topic.

Congratulations to DG on the milestone, and thanks for enriching all our lives!
I've been visiting since at least 2006. My, how time flies.
I'm another long term reader and very occasional commenter. I'm not surprised you have so many visitors - there are not many blogs so consistently updated with interesting articles. a real labour of love.

Thank you and congratulations for this evening.
Congratulations on your 6million. I started reading during the build up for 2012. You are now required breakfast reading. BTW any updates on bus stop M?
I'm a 7am-er, every day, and have been since March 2013. Can't imagine starting the day without DG - even the stuff about bus stops in Bow. Thank you, DG.
Congratulations DG. I've been a regular reader longer than I can remember. I don't know how you do it, particularly if you do have a full time 'day job'. You could make a good living teaching creative writing. As others have said, even the 'droning on' is of such excellent quality. Here's to the next million (give or take).
When I had a page, a visitor counter and statistics module was, interestingly, one of those I paid most effort in. Glad to see a webmaster still concerning his site's traffic.
Your blog is a life saver for me as i had to Leave London a while back but pine for its Fjords every day. You go a long way to alleviate the hurt. Ta.
Long time reader though I do not remember how I first arrived at your site. Though in US, I am familiar with your neck of the woods (Grandmother is buried in Tower Hamlets Cemetery), so enjoy hearing about life in the old neighborhood and London, in general. Your excellent writing skills, interesting points of view, and lack of monetized content are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I like it here.
Wow - in a DG top thirty!
Yep, I click through from my own blog every day - my blogroll largely being a facility for myself to keep up with the blogs I like. Chertsey (the blog not the boat) keeps threatening to fall into disuse but I can't quite bring myself to wind it up after over ten years. So here's where I make yet another resolution to rescue it from the doldrums...
I am another long time reader, very infrequent commentator. I came to the site many years ago via Sarah on Chertsey. I started following her because her blog is about life aboard a narrow boat, (Chertsey may be named after a place, but is actually a narrow boat) and she made an almost throwaway remark about a fantastic blog she reads regularly. Since I admire and enjoy her writing it seemed worth looking at a site she recommended. I'm so glad I did. I read everything posted, although some items get skim read, and it's one of the fixed points in my day. Long may DG continue.
I had to shut my blog down some years ago due to unpleasant and dangerous people on the web. I'm glad you're still going and STILL using a template that works instead of switching to some god-awful infinite scrolling advert wrecked bandwidth hogging thing.
Congrats on the milestone.

Just in case someone does not know what a million views looks like, just imagine a one metre square sheet of paper, taking a big part of one wall of a small room. Now see it as millimetre graph paper. Each little square represents a view. So well done DG for papering the sixth wall of the room!
I suspect that the slip down the google rankings is due to other people gaming the system. Although "do no harm" claims to be trying to prevent this, I don't really know whether they really work at it, or are too busy designing self-driving cars.
I have sometimes mused whether your blog is inspired by earlier 'bloggers' - possibly even Mr Pepys, the DG of 17th century London.

Is it possible that you are also the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty..?
Congratulations on your 6 millionth anniversary!
As long as you continue to write every day, I shall continue to visit every day! :)
Many congratulations on making the six million mark. A regular reader here - perhaps not quite daily but I certainly read almost everything - since around 2004/5. I wonder if you have (m)any other readers from your alma mater? Keep up the excellent work, it's always a pleasure to read.
Congratulations! I'm a daily reader and hope this blog continues, it's truly excellent and I can never believe that it's the output of one person.
Do these numbers include RSS feed readers? I rarely come to the website itself as its not great on my phone. (although have you upgraded at some point? It seems better then I remember).

dg writes: No. Sorry. And no.
Congratulations dg. I enjoy the variety and quirkiness / randomness of your posts. They quite often create quite a stir of opinions which I like reading through too.
Reader since 2008, came for the kittens and stayed.
50 visitors to go...
Checking in from Kathmandu (temporarily), another London refugee soothed by this blog. You got me into London Open House DG; for that alone I owe you heartfelt thanks.
The six millionth visitor arrived just before 7pm, supposedly from Lambeth on a BT connection, on a computer using Firefox and Windows 7. Hello if that was you!

And onward and upward...

Congrats DG. I'm Looking forward to the 7000000 milestone already. Thanks For a wonderful read every day.
Cxx
I've often wondered how often I'm counted in your visitor numbers. My browser is set to open all the windows from last time. Given that I switch my computer on usually more than once each day, does this mean I get counted multiple times?
many congratulations DG - well deserved
Many congratulations and thank you. I'm pretty sure I came via Darryl's excellent 853 (it's not just Charlton)but I've been following you for years.
I admire your turn of phrase and observational humour (bus rides are rich pickings for you!) and the research you do is astounding.
How you manage to hold down a job at the same time astounds me. Don't lose your mojo!
Congrats DG. I was born in Washington,DC before FDR was President. And have visited London a dozen times since 1964. I fell in love with the UndergrounD and Londontown (in that order). About three years ago a tube related article mentioned a Diamond Geezer posting and I sampled it. I've since visited London daily via your blog. Thank You !
Congrats on the milestone.
Hmmm. Was it one of the Maxwell brothers who went on record as saying "After the first six million you stop counting" ???
Congratulations! When I switch on my computer you are one of the first things I read ... and have been doing that for several years now. Also often mention your blog to friends. Thanks for all the hard work!

Tony
Congratulations from another regular exiled reader. I discovered this blog via Geofftech when reading about his tube challenges!
Let us go then, you and I
To hear tales of the city through our wi-fi
Like statistics immortalised in a table.

In their replies the readers praise does flow
Talking of DG from Bow.
Well done to you,DG! 👍🏻
I've only been visiting your blog for a couple of years, arriving from a link on Christopher Fowler's website,but have to check it each day- am I addicted?
Please carry on, I always enjoy reading about my town. 😊
I log in every day for my DG fix. The variety of offerings is compelling. Thank you, I have been looking in for many years now LG & DG and post occasionally. I now live further away but love your insight into Town. Here's to the next million.
Some days you're rewarded with a post that hits your target, other days droning on about something you care little about, but hopefully you find plenty of interest eventually. Spot on Keep it up, an unbiased unlobbied view of London and Beyond
I'm in for the long haul. Read every day. You're part of my life - weird isn't it!
I started reading your blog in 2006 or 2007 - or maybe before. Read it every day except maybe when traveling, in which case I do a catchup when I get home.
Joined Twitter in August 2009. Added you to follow list in maybe 2010-11.

Have posted remarks maybe six times since I started reading the blog. I love it and am even more appreciative of it now that I will not be traveling to the UK again - after 29 trips between 1980-2015.










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