Slashdink?

Well that…sucks. Maybe you should have included boobies on the site? ;-p

By the looks of your webcam you need to shave! So from the sound of things the infamous ” Slashdot effect” is mearly a slight bandwidth hickup! hey at least you were slashed.

I saw it and I was a bit surprized to see it on Slashdot. The slashdot crowd was pretty upset that they used the Gnome(window manager) icon/category.

Dude! That's because all of the cool geeks already KNOW about Gnomedex & didn't need to click through!

Heh heh heh… she said dude.

Oh crud. There goes my funny. The fake html tags are edited out. *glares menecingly* Oh well. Not so funny anymore, but it was supposed to be more like: [inside joke]Heh heh heh… she said dude.[/inside joke]. *sigh* Never mind. I'll just stand over here

I think you didnt get a torrent because it doesnt seem to have appeared on the frontpage..
Frontpage links generally get about 10,000 visitors

I agree with Gavin. It wasn't on the frontpage. So I had to search for it and the news really didn't warrant much comments (lots of flaming though).

It was also in the developers section of Slashdot. Take a look at the number of comments on that story. The only slower stories that day were the dupe story about the Sony Memory Stick TV Tuner mockup and the connecting Laos story. Most /.ers don't read the developers section as well either.

So what made that recent one in Europe so big? What was it 5000 at a HackFest?
P.S. I agree that if you added Robyn's boobies, you would get more traffic.
P.P.S. I would like to get Christian Langreiter, Sam Ruby and David Winer on a panel together discussing new directions!

Wow, it looks like everyone was pretty angry over the subject rather than pleased. I guess everyone isn't about to replace their GNOME with a gnome, if that made any sense at all. Anyways, the only point of interest I saw in their little flames was the “derogation” of the word “geek”. There ARE quite a few out there that don't know squat and sit in their house all day that are called “geeks”. Perhaps we should redefine this word, or even set a concrete definition?

What they said is true. Front page = /. effect. Other pages = some traffic.

Three words, Des Moines, Iowa… On another not I suspect that most people don't know that many articles appear under section pages and not the main page. I didn't till I submitted a story and It was accepted but I couldn't find it.

It was on the first page, did anyone else see it?

ha

I just had the one, and it was a Developer one (at http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1829256&mode=thread). The traffic was overwhelming. I think it was close to 100,000 in too short a time. Server crashed once, but the tech support was able to get it going again relateively quickly.
Still get very large number of hits based on the links this generated elsewhere. Luckily, didn't have a bandwidth limit problem.
A lot of factors determine what does and does not generate juice with /.
BTW, I think you should have added _your_ boobies, Chris. If nothing else, would have stopped the usual sexist BS that happens at slashdot.
Sorry it didn't work for you, though, because I think a conference in the mid-west is a good thing.

There ain't nothin on Hackerstickers about Gnomedex … did they take it down?

Nevermind, i saw it on the Slashdot thingie.

Yea, I saw it on the front page. At least there were people coming to the defense of the Iowa location in the comments. A couple people seem to have been spending to much time in strip clubs.

The low traffic was due to the negative comments. It got major-league slammed, so no reason to hit the link.