This page looks at Weasyl's comment IDs over time, and how those compare to the submission IDs over time.

Weasyl uses the same comment ID sequence for comments on submissions, characters, and journals. This page compares the total comment ID count to just the submission IDs, which means it is probably a slight over-estimate.

In 2014, Weasyl had a spam problem that affected the comment IDs. On February 21, 2014, in just over an hour, the comment ID count jumped from about 270,000 to 2,000,000. Furbitron is not sure if spammers really did post over 1,700,000 comments during that time, or if the Weasyl developers did something to reset the comment IDs, or something else. Furbitron asked a current Weasyl admin about this in February 2026, but got no reply. Furbitron also asked a Weasyl admin from 2014 about this in March 2026, and they could remember the spam, but not if it affected the comment IDs.

Because of this, this page uses a fixed offset of 1,730,000 that is subtracted from all comment IDs after the jump in 2014.

In general, there are fewer comments than submissions. At the end of June 2026, there were about 1.44 million comments, and about 2.59 million submissions, for an all-time average of about 0.56 comments per submission.

Important: These graphs don't automatically update every day. They were generated one time, on 2026-06-30, with the data collected up to that time.

First, a graph of the comment IDs from late 2012 to 2026-06-30.

You can see that the shape of the graph basically resembles the all-time submissions graph for Weasyl. You can also see that Weasyl got lots of comments from about 2014 to 2017, but the pace has slowed since them.

There are no year-on-year graphs of comment IDs for Weasyl. Because of the way comment scraping works on Weasyl, and because of the smaller number of comments in general, it is not always easy for Furbitron to find comments that were posted close to December 31 of each year. A year-on-year graph would therefore be misleading in January and December.

Furbitron's regular data collection on submission IDs shows that Weasyl's submission rate has changed over time. In 2012, Weasyl's first full year of operation, there were about 77,200 submissions. In 2014, Weasyl's best year so far, there were about 526,000 submissions. In 2025 there were about 99,700 submissions.

By dividing the comment IDs by the submission IDs, the average number of comments per submission can be calculated. The next graph shows this average by year.

From this, the peak period was late 2015 and early 2016, with about 0.79 comments per submission. The ratio dropped every year from then until 2025, when it stood at about 0.57 comments per submission. 2026, so far, is a slight decline from 2025 at 0.56 comments per submission.