After spending the 2nd half of 2016 doing a lot of clean-up and rebuilding, the archive got to reap the rewards in 2017 with lots of new stories and a revitalized community! We saw our first writing contest, a new fun rating system in the form of jellybeans, new themes, a shoutbox and trivia chats, and social media accounts with several thousand followers! Here are some archive stats from 2017:

• Over 1.5 millions hits! (30% more than 2016)
• 120 new members (twice as many as 2016, and the most new members since 2010!)
• 17 new authors
• 845 reviews (4x as many as 2016, most reviews since 2011!)
• 83 New & Updated stories (3.5x more than 2016, and most since 2011!)
• 77 new stories and 6 updated stories
• over 1,200 ePub downloads
• over 690,000 words added!

And here are a few lists because we know you love them!

Stories with Most Hits in 2017 (archive wide)

1. Expressions in Emoticons by NobleLandMermaid
2. Turnabout's Fair Playby ficklevillain
   
3. Words Left Unsaid by Rach3l
4. Distance Learning by time4moxie
5. Cold Openings by kgreene
6. Office Porn: Erotic Tales of the Dunder Mifflin Employees by Ellelque*
7. Nearing the Edgeby girl7
   
8. Love, loyalty, friendship by Rach3l
   
9. Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day by Rach3l
10. Anywhere But Here by NobleLandMermaid
11. The Love Song of Squirrel McPants by time
    
12. Only by girl7
13. Why Albany in February is Like Paris in April by Mr Bill
    
14. Inside the Teapotby sorano916
    
15. Love Suffers Long by BringingTheJam
16. I just wanted to be famous. by Stablergirl
    

* this is pretty much solely because of internet searches ;-)

2017 New and Updated stories with most hits

1. Words Left Unsaid by Rach3l
2. Love, loyalty, friendship Rach3l
3. Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day Rach3l
4. Anywhere But Hereby NobleLandMermaid
   
5. Love Suffers Long by BringingTheJam
6. The Job (continued) and The Date by OfficeGirl2001
7. The Modern Office Worker and the Delicate Art of Seduction by Candi
   
8. Error Code by Comfect
   
9. Trivial Pursuits by Comfect
   
10. More Than a Day, More Than a Word by NobleLandMermaid

Most Downloaded ePubs in 2017

• Indie Rock and Keds by Nightswept
  
• Nearing the Edge by girl7
• Distance Learning by time4moxie
  
• Only by girl7
• Indigo and Crimson by Deedldee
  
• The Love Song of Squirrel McPants by time4moxie
• Shift by thirtypercent
  
• Two by yanana
  
• Vocabulary by Talkative
  
• The Accident by spaceorphan

Most words added in 2017

1. Rach3l [281,817]
2. Comfect [90,467]
3. agian18 [60,826]
4. caitlinrose923 [47,421]
5. NobleLandMermaid [25,095]
6. shutterbug [22,680]
7. OfficeGirl2001 [19,244]
8. msteapot [14,865]
9. dwangela [12,742]
10. BringingTheJam [12,672]

Top Reviewers of 2017

1. BecauseOfYou
   
2. alittlestitious2
   
3. NobleLandMermaid
   
4. Comfect
   
5. Clover
   
6. Moogie Man
   
7. Too Late Kev
   
8. nqllisi
   
9. manidfk
   
10. Rach3l
    

Top Jellybean givers of 2017

1. Clover
   
2. Comfect
   
3. BecauseOfYou
   
4. Rach3l
   
5. NobleLandMermaid
   
6. BringingTheJam
   
7. Too Late Kev
   
8. paperairplaine
   
9. agian18
   
10. watchthesky84

Thank you everyone who made 2017 a great year for MTT, let's aim to make 2018 even better!