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Feb 10 2008

Oh Goody!

22 responses so far

22 Responses to “Oh Goody!”

1. # jmon 10 Feb 2008 at 8:43 pm

   Wait ’til they lock onto the Linux posts. DRM and Linux is the Slashdot perfect storm.

2. # Nateon 10 Feb 2008 at 8:45 pm

   But the real question is did you notice this on your specs while in a beerhaus in Amsterdam?

3. # Arunon 10 Feb 2008 at 9:34 pm

   I was thinking the same thing when I read it, John.

   -A.

4. # Pat Jon 10 Feb 2008 at 10:13 pm

   Nate: Does it make me a nerd that I’m pretty sure I know what you’re referring to?

5. # Dana Jeanon 10 Feb 2008 at 10:25 pm

   What the hell is slashdotting?

6. # JamesCon 10 Feb 2008 at 10:28 pm

   Slashdot traffic is always slower on the weekend, so it probably won’t be crippling, but it’s still good press.

7. # Jason 10 Feb 2008 at 10:28 pm

   Impressive. The site loaded, and quickly. Maybe 1and1 are able to handle a slashdotting. (that is, Dana, being linked to from Slashdot.org, where the traffic kills mere mortal servers).

8. # Johne Cookon 10 Feb 2008 at 10:29 pm

   It’s like the Colbert Bump for geeks:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdotting

   The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. The name stems from the huge influx of web traffic that results from the technology news site Slashdot linking to underpowered websites.

9. # JamesCon 10 Feb 2008 at 10:34 pm

   Dana: “slashdotting” is the event where the readers of the geek website “Slashdot” ( http://slashdot.org ) visit a link posted on that site, usually crippling the target website with massive amounts of traffic.

10. # John Scalzion 10 Feb 2008 at 10:50 pm

    Jas:

    Scalzi.com has 3TB of bandwidth a month, and I have WP caching high-traffic pages here at Whatever, so we stand a reasonable chance of holding up to a slashdotting. But yeah, things like this are why I don’t try to host myself.

11. # Juliaon 10 Feb 2008 at 10:56 pm

    Scalzi, come on. If your site can stand up to a Farking, a Slashdotting is almost anticlimactic.

12. # Kafon 10 Feb 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Have to agree with Julia. Back in the day (yikes!), a slashdotting used to really mean something (good and horrible, because it was taking your site down!). These days, not so much.

13. # ianmorrison 10 Feb 2008 at 11:30 pm

    nate: nice accelerando reference, it’s too bad even the posthuman couldn’t predict digg.

14. # ianmorrison 10 Feb 2008 at 11:31 pm

    you could have been dugg if you wrote about ron paul (before super tuesday)

15. # Bubba7on 11 Feb 2008 at 12:30 am

    I hate to say it, but it looks like as of now [11:27 pm CST 2-10-08] the Tor site is no longer taking applications for the free books. I figured as much when I saw it slashdotted (oh, the spell checker didn’t like that one) but it looks like the gravy train has ended. Oh, well, at
    least I got there before the rush with my backup e-mail account… guess it is true, snooze and loose. Anyone else here notice a problem or is it just me?

16. # Jonathan Vos Poston 11 Feb 2008 at 12:40 am

    Go, slashdot, go.

    Because I still own over 2,000 shares of SourceForge (from back when it was VA Linux, and then became VA Software, and then mutated into SourceForge, and own slashdot).

    Writers, real PROFESSIONAL writers, pay themselves first, and have a retirement portfolio of some kind.

    What John Scalzi writes about writing as a profession is true. Especially the part about being very very lucky in whom you marry. Damn, but he and I aced that, by marrying up.

17. # Ellenon 11 Feb 2008 at 9:36 am

    Probably not quite AS exciting, but did you see that GalleyCat called you “nearly-as-insanely-popular” as Neil Gaiman?

18. # John Scalzion 11 Feb 2008 at 9:39 am

    When I have two movies out to the theaters in the same six month span, then I will be almost as popular as Neil Gaiman. But it’s nice of Galleycat to say.

19. # sraunon 11 Feb 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Any idea how the Tor site is doing? I followed your original post and signed up – either Friday or Saturday – and haven’t gotten my e-mail yet.

20. # John Scalzion 11 Feb 2008 at 1:36 pm

    I suspect now that it’s a business day things will start moving along.

21. # stoolpigeonon 11 Feb 2008 at 7:09 pm

    fark and digg- traffic yes- but slashdot is quality peoples.

    reading the comments at fark will make you laugh.
    reading the comments at digg will make you dumb.
    reading the comments at the dot will make you smart. (well – as long as you browse above +1 or so.)

22. # Jeremiah Gon 12 Feb 2008 at 10:40 am

    mmmm /.

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