So, Slashdot ain't what it used to be*, but one link to my shellshock article at the bottom of a slashdot post covering multiple shellshock things (that is, not even featuring mine) and slashdot is now the top referrer of the last 30 days by a comfortable margin, and that puts it 5 for non-Fedora sources for all time.
Conclusion: we should really try to get on slashdot more.
* the joke is, of course, that it never was.
On 09/29/2014 07:41 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
So, Slashdot ain't what it used to be*, but one link to my shellshock article at the bottom of a slashdot post covering multiple shellshock things (that is, not even featuring mine) and slashdot is now the top referrer of the last 30 days by a comfortable margin, and that puts it 5 for non-Fedora sources for all time.
Yeah, it's weird, but there's still an audience there. (I say "weird" because these days Slashdot tends to be much slower than other tech news sources. By the time something winds up on /. I've usually seen it already via Twitter, Reddit, LWN, etc.)
Conclusion: we should really try to get on slashdot more.
Might be good for a few people to take point on that. I've been trying to make sure posts get to Twitter, and I think Ryan has been doing Google+. (Probably too soon to worry about Ello...)
Reddit and Hacker News are also very good sources of traffic, if you can get on the front page*.
* Reddit "front page" varies by subscriber/subreddit, of course. A high-ranked post on /r/fedora won't drive as many folks as a post on /r/linux, and that won't land as many readers as /r/technology.
Speaking of Reddit... we should have the FPL do an AMA soon, or around one of the releases.
- the joke is, of course, that it never was.
Kinda disagree here. In its heyday, Slashdot could send a pretty hefty firehose of traffic if you made the front page. This was ~8+ years ago, though, then Digg started to supplant Slashdot [1], and then Reddit and other sites crushed Digg, etc.
[1] http://kottke.org/06/01/digg-vs-slashdot
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:02:20AM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
Speaking of Reddit... we should have the FPL do an AMA soon, or around one of the releases.
Ooh, yep.
- the joke is, of course, that it never was.
Kinda disagree here. In its heyday, Slashdot could send a pretty hefty firehose of traffic if you made the front page. This was ~8+ years ago, though, then Digg started to supplant Slashdot [1], and then Reddit and other sites crushed Digg, etc.
Sorry; obscure comment. It's a joke because at least as early as 1999 there was Slashdot trend which became kind of a meme where people would complain about how the site sucked compared to how it used to be. Not that Slashdot effect wasn't real.
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