slashdot effect

[Ryan Lerch]

On Sep 29, 2014 12:02 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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*.

I have been posting on /r/Linux a bit lately too which has been yielding some good response

>
> * 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 
>
> Best, 
>
> jzb 
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