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@orchidfiles
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
68subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003225573042 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @orchidfiles |
| Created | Between 1 October 2025 and 31 January 2026— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 24 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 24 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/orchidfiles |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026, 05:16 | 68 | +1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 01:17 | 67 | no change |
| 8 Aug 2026, 03:05 | 67 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 22:51 | 68 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 11 May 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 26 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
63 reactions across 11 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 57.1% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | 36 | 57.1% | |
| 👍 | 8 | 12.7% | |
| 🏆 | 5 | 7.94% | |
| 🎉 | 4 | 6.35% | |
| 👏 | 4 | 6.35% | |
| 😁 | 2 | 3.17% | |
| 🤔 | 2 | 3.17% | |
| ❤ | 1 | 1.59% | |
| 🤷♂ | 1 | 1.59% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 12 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 63reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 11 May 2026 to 26 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Right now, there are thousands of repositories on GitHub that are spreading malware. Any of you can find these repositories, and you don’t need any special knowledge to do so. All you have to do is use the standard search function on the GitHub website. Read the details in my new article
I wrote an essay on the problems with hourly and project-based pay for both clients and contractors. Read the essay
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Gurus I follow a crypto blogger, but I see that almost all of his posts are about how successful he is. He flies business class, buys his wife gifts, and dines at expensive restaurants. But if I wanted to look at your photos, I’d follow you on Instagram, wouldn’t I? Your profile bio says you’ll teach me how to trade crypto. I followed you to learn something new, but after scrolling through a month’s worth of your p…
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How old are you? At first, you get used to a single number, confidently give your answer, and then realize you’ve already gotten it wrong by a year. The years fly by so quickly that it’s sometimes hard to remember. You have to calculate the difference between the current year and the year you were born. That’s why I’ve chosen a different way to answer. I pick a single number and stick with it for the next five year…
🔥4🤷♂1
Number one on HN. Second time in the last 30 days.
🎉4
Number 3 on Hacker News. A new historic moment.
🔥8
I wrote a story about how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. All of these repositories are from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they all follow the same pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find such repositories. Read the story
More bad advice from AI If you ask AI whether you should post the full text of an article on platforms like Medium or Reddit, it will almost always say you should post a preview of 1-2 paragraphs, a hook, and include a link to your website with the full version of the article at the end. Because if you post the entire text, you’ll be giving away seo traffic to that platform. AI doesn’t give a damn that this is a com…
Price of dreams Many years ago, I came across this phrase: dream as much as you can, because it won’t cost you a thing. But is that really true? When I fall in love, I can spend hours or days fantasizing about our future together. When I get a job offer, I imagine how I’ll reach the top of my career there in a few years. When a project brings in its first $100, I’m already thinking about how I’ll make millions from…
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Reason behind a startup’s success If a startup becomes profitable, you can try to trace the chain of events that led to it. You might actually find reasons and believe them. It’s as if you’ve discovered some kind of truth and now you understand exactly what needs to be done and how. This is especially noticeable when your very first startup succeeds. You think it’s because your product is better than your competitor…
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Comparison with others Why is there a belief that we should stop comparing ourselves to others? What’s more, if you haven’t reached zen yet, you’re unlikely to be able to stop doing it at all. When you compare yourself to people you think are better than you, you have something to strive for. You want to become like them or even better. This motivates you to grow. If you compare yourself to those worse than you, it…
What city do you live in? Recruiters often ask this question when they want to check whether a candidate’s time zone matches the team’s working hours. Suppose it’s -5 in their city, while your team is at +3. That’s an eight-hour difference. But why does it matter what city they live in? What if the candidate named a city but is planning to move away from it? Or they constantly travel and live in different time zone…
👏4🤔1
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @orchidfiles. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 24 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Orchid Files” (@orchidfiles), 68 subscribers as measured 24 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/orchidfiles.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.