Comments on: My first social media induced server crash

By: Vidyut Kale

Vidyut Kale — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:51:10 +0000

Wow Kalena, I just loved your post. Your excitement at this server crash shines through, and I found myself wishing for one. I am so excited and happy for you. Keep going.

Vidyut

By: Scanzin

Scanzin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:14:01 +0000

I think the most I’ve seen from StumbleUpon is GREAT Good job!

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5 Reasons Why I Used To Suck On StumbleUpon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:30:45 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:09:25 +0000

This is often referred to as “The slashdot effect”. The expression originates from the site /. (slashdot) which is basically news for nerds. Since the site have thousands of readers, some popular articles (or personal blogs) about something these geeks find interesting can get thousands, ten-thousands or hundred-thousands of visits in a very short time. Many of the bloggers certainly don’t have the servers to cope with that, and the site (or even the entire server) goes down.

So, even though the link wasn’t actually posted on /. I gues I can still congratulate you. You’ve been slashdotted!

Chris. . . .

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:17:14 +0000

It’s called ‘making the Buzz page’ I guess which I how I would describe it.

Congratulations, it was a great post

By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:47:26 +0000

Wow! That’s impressive. I’ve gotten spikes of 15K from BoingBoing, but I think the most I’ve seen from StumbleUpon is about 1K. Good job!

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Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:21:18 +0000

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By: dzver

dzver — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:30:47 +0000

keep the good work :)

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:56:31 +0000

The key message is the new subscriptions you received – like other flash-traffic generators (including pay-for-click services), stumbleupon’s traffic flood isn’t necessarily useful or usable traffic. Our SEO business site was stumbled in the category “open source” – we got a lot of traffic, but for no obvious reason we could discern (maybe it was the pleasing green we used, very copacetic). Didn’t generate any new business, either, from the random crowd ostensibly looking for open-source projects to join. Sounds like your stumble was well worth it!

By: Link Love - Friday 01/04/2008

Link Love - Friday 01/04/2008 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:55:43 +0000

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