2022 Challenge: Weekly Filet, All Around the Globe

On August 21, I launched a challenge: By the end of the year, I'd like to have at least one reader in every country on Earth. This community of readers is large and strong enough that I think we can make it happen, together. This page is regularly updated to show how we're doing.

The List

Currently, we still need to find readers in 68 countries. The largest countries with not a single Weekly Filet reader are now DR Congo, Angola and Afghanistan. The latest countries where we found the very first reader were Uruguay and Uzbekistan.

πŸ‘€DR Congoβœ…Iran
βœ…Tanzaniaβœ…Myanmar
βœ…Sudanβœ…Iraq
βœ…Uzbekistanβœ…Saudi Arabia
πŸ‘€AngolaπŸ‘€Afghanistan
βœ…MozambiqueπŸ‘€Yemen
πŸ‘€NepalπŸ‘€Madagascar
πŸ‘€North KoreaπŸ‘€Niger
πŸ‘€Malawiβœ…Mali
βœ…GuatemalaπŸ‘€Chad
πŸ‘€Somaliaβœ…Zimbabwe
πŸ‘€South SudanπŸ‘€Rwanda
πŸ‘€GuineaπŸ‘€Burundi
βœ…TunisiaπŸ‘€Haiti
βœ…JordanπŸ‘€Cuba
πŸ‘€TajikistanπŸ‘€Papua New Guinea
βœ…Sierra Leoneβœ…Togo
πŸ‘€ParaguayπŸ‘€Laos
πŸ‘€Libyaβœ…El Salvador
βœ…KyrgyzstanπŸ‘€Nicaragua
πŸ‘€TurkmenistanπŸ‘€Congo
πŸ‘€Central African RepublicπŸ‘€Palestine
πŸ‘€Liberiaβœ…Oman
βœ…PanamaπŸ‘€Mauritania
πŸ‘€Eritreaβœ…Uruguay
βœ…Armeniaβœ…Albania
βœ…Qatarβœ…Jamaica
πŸ‘€MoldovaπŸ‘€Namibia
πŸ‘€GambiaπŸ‘€Botswana
πŸ‘€GabonπŸ‘€Lesotho
πŸ‘€Guinea-BissauπŸ‘€Equatorial Guinea
βœ…Trinidad and TobagoπŸ‘€East Timor
βœ…MauritiusπŸ‘€Eswatini
πŸ‘€DjiboutiπŸ‘€Fiji
πŸ‘€BhutanπŸ‘€Comoros
πŸ‘€GuyanaπŸ‘€Solomon Islands
βœ…MontenegroπŸ‘€Suriname
βœ…Cape Verdeβœ…Malta
βœ…Bruneiβœ…Bahamas
πŸ‘€MaldivesπŸ‘€Vanuatu
πŸ‘€BarbadosπŸ‘€SΓ£o TomΓ© and PrΓ­ncipe
πŸ‘€SamoaπŸ‘€Saint Lucia
πŸ‘€KiribatiπŸ‘€St. Vincent and the Grenadines
πŸ‘€MicronesiaπŸ‘€Tonga
πŸ‘€Antigua and BarbudaπŸ‘€Andorra
πŸ‘€DominicaπŸ‘€Marshall Islands
πŸ‘€Saint Kitts and Nevisβœ…Liechtenstein
πŸ‘€MonacoπŸ‘€San Marino
πŸ‘€PalauπŸ‘€Nauru
πŸ‘€TuvaluπŸ‘€Vatican City

Here's how you can help:

  • Have a look at the list of countries below. Know someone in a country that yet has to record its first Weekly Filet reader? Invite them to sign up by sending this special link to them.
  • You are a Weekly Filet reader and your own country is marked as πŸ‘€? Let me know so I can fix the mistake. The reason for this is that I don't have country data for all readers.

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About the data (if you're a nerd like me)

When people sign up to the Weekly Filet, the country they are currently in gets recorded based on their IP address. That's what I'm using as the closest available proxy for the list you see above. There are a number of factors that make this proxy differ from reality.

  • When people use a VPN or are travelling, the country that gets recorded is not the country they live in.
  • Sometimes, for technical reasons, no country is recorded at all.
  • I'm not using realtime data, so some people who signed up recently but are no longer reading are still included.

For most of the countries on the list, this doesn't really matter. For the purposes of this challenge, we're only interested in whether there is at least one reader per country. Most countries have dozens, some have hundreds or even thousands of readers, so we can be pretty sure one of them is correct. It's sketchy only for those countries with only one or a handful of readers. The best way to fix this...is to get at least dozens of readers from each country πŸ˜„ Β