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Re: [lojban] slashdot.org gives Lojban a push
At 12:40 PM 05/02/2000 +0200, Daniel Gudlat wrote:
la lojbab. cusku di'e
> I just found out that Lojban was merely mentioned in a topic of discussion
> on slashdot.org a few days ago. The result has been a phenomonal set of
> hits (not to mention a discussion thread that was around 400K of download,
> though relatively little of that was about Lojban).
That's known as the "slashdot effect". Well, more correctly, the
slashdot effect pertains to the downing of web servers that are well
suited to the load normally imposed on them, when those servers get hit
by a million geeks in one day after the site was mentioned in a slash
dot front article.
Well, I don't *think* we went down %^)
I'm a little concerned whether we'll have a premium charge from our ISP for
exceeding some bandwidth limit.
> The following, where I respond to Don Harlow, who told me about it, gives
> the URL and the stunning hit numbers. If any significant percentage of
> these turns to Lojban List subscriptions or book orders, we will shortly be
> drowning in new people.
Don't count on it, but it's entirely possible that the number of
subscribers to the lojban list on egroups will double in the coming
weeks...
That would be nice, especially if they are seriously interested people.
> Oh, kinda interesting is that the hits on the 29th came from 63 different
> country domains, including such places as Christmas Island and Niue.
Hmm, we may finally get a truly international audience on the list. This
may prove interesting. Three cheers to slashdot if it really happens!
We already have a quite international audience. Take a look sometime. Our
most frequent poster is Jorge from Argentina. Chris from New Zealand just
responded on this thread. I think something like 30-40% of list
subscribers are known to be non-US people
> I am not sure I ever heard of slashdot.org before this. But
> obviously a lot of people read it seriously.
You betcha. It's THE geek site on the internet. And your comment above
disproves the alleged geekiness of lojban: How can lojban be a geek
language when the head of the LLG doesn't even know about /. ?
There are a LOT of things that the head of the LLG doesn't know about the
Internet, and especially about Web sites, since I rarely browse and never surf.
lojbab
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