Welcome to the September issue!

(Disclaimer: Above title is what it is, it does refer neither to this nor to Vogue in general in any shape or form.)

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Some statistics

Seeing that last month has surpassed 14k subscribers on r/EuropeEats, we want to share some statistics with you.

The community actually is small indeed: On 2024-08-31 the count in the sidebar showed 14,255 connoisseurs.

Only that there are issues with that number… it's very well possible, that the real count is far lower (as in every subreddit actually), mainly due to the protests like a year ago or some such. People who left Reddit for good still seem to be counted as subscribers. This explains, why posts having scored multiple hundred karma a few years ago now are scoring in the dozens. Not that it's important, we're striving for quality over quantity, but it's explaining some of the differences.

The active user base (people ever having posted or commented) is far smaller and amounts to just 1,945 users. Thanks to these for being part of our little community!

As you might know, contributors with at least one full star ★ can award medals to other people's posts. That's the case for 125 star chefs. In total, they have awarded 72 medals so far: the most recent 10 awards can be seen in the sidebar.

So, thanks for using this feature! If you are able to use it as well but have no clue how, just make a top level comment in a post which amazes and inspires you. Just write

!Award medal

and the rest will be taken care of by our friendly house bot.

Our private hangout lounge

As announced in the August issue, we introduced the subreddit r/EuropeEatsLounge for our top contributers to hang around. There are pretty much no rules over there, except to be positive.

You are considered a top contributor able to join as soon as you have earned ★☆ chef stars. At the time of writing this applies to just 76 contributors (of which some may have left).

If you can join please do so: it's a bit lonely there without you!

New bot features

Today we introduce the new feature our house bot has just acquired. It's still somehow beta, so it might work or not 😉

If you come along an interesting post from a user, which makes you want to see more posts from that user, just make a top-level comment such:

!Show gallery

The bot will then generate a gallery consisting of up to their 20 most recently posted submissions to r/EuropeEats. Each image in the gallery will have a caption with the post's title and, of course, a link taking you directly to that post. Give it a minute: it will reply to your comment and direct you to the gallery as soon as done. Have fun!

If you've got ideas for new features, just hit your keyboard and let us know 🙂

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And now: Keep posting quality content! You're all awesome!