In the context of the competition Let's predict the date of the ten millionth question on Stack Overflow I'd like to clarify which count of questions should be used. There are two:

The former excludes historically locked questions; the latter includes all questions. (I confirmed this behavior after comparing the two counts for other sites.)

Which count should be used for the purpose of determining the time of reaching 10M questions?


Not that this is particularly important, but hey - if we're gonna have a bit of self-indulgent vanity, we might as well be precise when focusing in on our collective navel.

So... In my humble opinion, the count on /questions should be used.

Primarily because it's the one everyone sees, but also because philosophically Historical Lock questions are deleted - and we don't count deleted questions in either place.

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