Record traffic for istotne.pl – 1,200,000 unique visits to the website – was recorded in August. In 2025, from among many websites, you chose istotne.pl and our reports from the Ceramics Festival:
- 88,644 views were recorded by the report: Prestigious Exhibition Destroyed. The most prestigious exhibition of the 60th International Ceramics and Sculpture Symposium was completely destroyed due to the organizers’ incompetence.
- 38,935 views were recorded by the report: We Are Intruders in Our Own City! We Do Not Feel Safe. Residents stressed that they wanted not to feel like intruders and second-class citizens in their own city during the major event that is the Ceramics Festival, which they love. They appealed to the authorities to solve the problem.
- 42,920 views were recorded by the article He Descended from the Town Hall Tower in Bolesławiec at the Opening of the Ceramics Festival, while only 13,129 views were recorded by Clay People Parade Again at the Ceramics Festival.
We also covered local topics that others were unable or afraid to address, or avoided altogether. We wrote about Father Piotr, a Piarist caught in the act, and about the Gala of the Future of the county hospital.
- 91,769 views were recorded by the article: A Piarist from Bolesławiec Leads a Double Life. He Passionately Talks About His Erotic Travels
- 61,842 views were recorded by the article with a video Virtue and Body. How a Religious Brother Lost His Reputation and Job at the Piarist School in Bolesławiec
- 48,256 Alcohol at a Gala in a High School Hall. Controversy After the St. Luke’s Hospital Event
- 18,253 Costs of the St. Luke’s Hospital Gala. The Foundation Responds
Our articles about Father Jarosiewicz and his friend, celebrity Adrian Drankowski, were also very popular. In 2025, both lost a court case against journalists (the judgment is not final; both appealed it).
- 47,646 Father Jarosiewicz Has a Price List for Sacramental Services. Parishioners in Węgliniec: That Is a Lot of Money
- 29,987 Bishop Sends a New Priest to Węgliniec. Father Jarosiewicz Has Moved Out
The article with the video “Who Is Adrian?” (nominated for the SGL LOCAL PRESS 2023 award) has 99,760 views (the video is unavailable because of the lawsuit).
An article by Krzysztof Gwizdała also reverberated widely across Poland The Nawrocki Effect. The Number of Defections from the Church Rose Sharply – 30,278 views. Left- and right-wing media wrote about it.
The list of the most-read news stories in 2025:
- A Piarist from Bolesławiec Leads a Double Life. He Passionately Talks About His Erotic Travels – 91,769
- Prestigious Exhibition at the Ceramics Festival Destroyed – 88,644
- Spring Has Barely Begun, Yet the Lower Silesian Forests Are Teeming with Mushrooms—and What Mushrooms They Are – 71,726
- The Best City to Live in Lower Silesia in 2025 – 68,214
- You Can Buy a Railway Station! The Most Beautiful Stop in Lower Silesia Is for Sale – 65,698
- Young Man Falls from an Overpass. Resuscitation Underway. We Know the Details – 65,582
- Attention Pensioners and Disability Beneficiaries! Important Information from the Tax Office – 63,186
- Virtue and Body. How a Religious Brother Lost His Reputation and Job at the Piarist School in Bolesławiec – 61,842
- St. Luke’s Hospital Celebrates Six Years Under the Leadership of Kamil Barczyk – 59,349
- Camper Stolen in Germany, Worth More Than PLN 200,000, Recovered; 48-Year-Old Foreign National Arrested – 54,153
All figures given are views as of December 30, 2025.