At the time of writing there are 74,223 questions on EL&U. How many answers are there?
2 Answers
The Data Explorer will provide reasonably up-to-date exact numbers (exact up to the last refresh), but even the front page of http://data.stackexchange.com/ shows an approximate figure:
- 74k questions
- 184k answers
- 556k comments
- 976 tags
An existing query provides the following statistics as at the time of this edit:
Answers: 184317
Questions: 74068
The difference in the number of questions is because the Explorer data isn't quite up-to-date.
You can get an accurate and completely up-to-date count by using an advanced search (you just need to be logged in, otherwise it only returns 500 results maximum).
When I search with is:a
I get 254,853. When I first posted this answer, I got only 184,750.