OpenBenches hits 40k

Back in November 2023, our crowdsourced website of memorial benches reached 30,000 entries. At the start of March this year, I was delighted when long-time contributor jrbray1 added this gorgeous memorial, taking us up to 40,000 benches catalogued:

You can read more about Dr Judy John and her work on biodiversity.

Using the power of advanced machine learning, it is possible to plot the growth on an innovative form of data visualisation known as "a graph"!

That's the sort of "number go up" that investors like to see. I reckon someone will come along to give us a bazillion dollarydoos any minute now.

For those of you who like text rather than graphics, here are our historic milestones:

• 10K - December 2018
• 20K - August 2021
• 30K - November 2023
• 40K - March 2026
• 50k - ??? Probably September 2027 ???

Tell you what, when we get to fifty-thousand, we'll throw a big party and you'll all be invited 🥳

If you spot a lovely memorial bench while you're out and about, please take a geotagged photo and upload it to OpenBenches.org.