From the first day to the end of the season
Summer 2026
Aethernet opened on Thursday 2 July 2026. Summer is over now. Here is everything that went through it in between, with every figure as of 28 September 2026.
Together you generated
14,394,677
recorded actions
That is about 113 every minute, around the clock.
You were never alone out there
113
worlds where the phone rang
Spread across North America, Europe, Japan, Oceania and China. One in every thirteen phones rang on Balmung alone.
The conversation kept going
5,787,054
private messages
Sent at every hour of the day, from a phone that speaks nine languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish and Chinese. The longest single conversation ran to 20,207 messages.
Glamour shots and G-Poses
348,059
photos shared
A few of them, from across the summer.
And then you wrote
19,478,684
characters, out in the open
Around 3.4 million words. That is War and Peace, nearly six times over, typed into a phone inside a video game.
The smallest gesture there is
3,254,800
likes given
On photos, on posts, on comments. More than three million times, someone saw what you made and tapped to say so.
Thirteen reactions shipped. You used every one.
251,128
reactions on Chirper
The heart took 42%, and the crying-laughing face came second. Angry came last with 2,782.
You found each other
343,192
pairs of people connected
Through follows, saved contacts and Velvet connections, with each pair counted once.
The Gamba floor opened 16 August
1,720,402,399
chips wagered across 3,605,470 rounds
Slots took 3,325,957 of the rounds. The house kept 4% of everything staked.
You actually called each other
677
hours of voice calls
The longest one ran 5 hours 59 minutes. The biggest group call had ten people in it at once.
Activity by hour, UTC
The phone never sleeps
Busiest at 22:00, when afternoon in North America overlaps late evening in Europe. Quietest at 11:00, which still saw 190,779 posts, comments, reactions and messages over the season.
Records
Somebody out there did this
All records are shown without names.
On the other side of the glass
2,454
commits since 21 June
A note from the team
Thank you for this summer.
We built the phone. You filled it: your conversations, the things you shared, the people you went looking for and the ones you found.
Development continues, and the next season has started.
the Aetherphone team
About the Aetherphone team
The people behind it
Aetherphone began as a side project. It is now built and run with help from these people:
All of that
And that was the first summer.
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