Channel
@thebfd
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
219subscribers
-3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001514199420 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thebfd |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 24 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 24 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thebfd |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026, 09:42 | 219 | -2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 04:03 | 221 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 03:17 | 222 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 03:01 | 222 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 20 July 2024 — 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 12 September 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Dr Michael Schmidt’s Interview with Leighton Smith Leighton Smith Podcast Episode 147 BFD writer Dr Michael John Schmidt writes a weekly column for The BFD From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale. Listen to his interview with Leighton below. Leighton reads from a couple of Mike’s articles/ letters to the editor published both on The BFD and elsewhere. After a… https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/03/18/dr-michael-schmidts-i…
The BFD Daily Proverb Proverbs 25 21 If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. 22 You will heap burning coals of shame on their heads, and the Lord will reward you. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends. Share this:… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/25/the-bfd-daily-proverb-1649/
The BFD Daily Proverb Proverbs 24 20 For evil people have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends. Share this: - Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) - Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) -… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/24/the-bfd-daily-proverb-1648/
The BFD Daily Proverb Proverbs 23 29 Who has anguish? Who has sorrow? Who is always fighting? Who is always complaining? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends. https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/23/the-bfd-daily-proverb-1646/
The BFD Daily Roundup – Mind That Slope ------------- ------------- ------------- ------------- ------------- If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership options. https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/…
The BFD Backchat Good evening, welcome to Backchat. On Backchat, you are free to share your own stories, discuss other news or catch up with friends. To participate you’ll need to sign up for a Disqus accountwhich is free, quick, and easy. On posts that are not articles like this one, you do not have to stay ‘on… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/21/the-bfd-backchat-1624/
Today in Rock History Today in Rock History is a music orientated segment where we would like to encourage readers to share their thoughts and tastes in music and discuss the various aspects of any music topic. This post is not limited to rock music. You are encouraged to bring anything music-related along that you would like to share,… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/21/today-in-rock-history-1922/
Bye Bye BFD, Hello The Good Oil Tomorrow is the end of a short era of The BFD. The site was born in the aftermath of my stroke and was always supposed to be a temporary solution before we had a new brand. Following on from the retirement of Juana, due to her terminal cancer, I decided to take the opportunity to… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/21/bye-bye-bfd-hello-the-good-oil/
Why Ringo Really Is Great When The Beatles Anthology documentary aired in 1995, many of my younger colleagues expressed surprise that Ringo Starr came across as the smartest and funniest of the four. Which only goes to show just how ridiculously underrated Mr Starkey has been for almost all his career. Even today the joke that he wasn’t even the… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/21/why-ringo-really-is-great/
‘Green Hydrogen’ Dream Slapped by Reality “Green hydrogen” is such an obviously ludicrous idea it beggars belief anyone could be seriously bamboozled by it for a second. Least of all a supposedly hard-headed business leader. But an apparently bottomless honeypot of taxpayer’s money can buy a lot of bamboozlement. But only so much, it appears. Billionaire Andrew Forrest has abandoned ambitious… https://thebfd.co.n…
The BFD Daily Opinion Poll Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD using the share buttons at the top or… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/21/the-bfd-daily-opinion-poll-385/
Bye Bye BFD, Hello The Good Oil Tomorrow is the end of a short era of The BFD. The site was born in the aftermath of my stroke and was always supposed to be a temporary solution before we had a new brand. Following on from the retirement of Juana, due to her terminal cancer, I decided to take the opportunity to… https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/07/21/bye-bye-bfd-hello-the-good-oil/
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @thebfd. 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.
Citation-graph rank — 1,563,240 of 1,621,754entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
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.
“The BFD” (@thebfd), 219 subscribers as measured 24 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thebfd.
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.