Huh, Mk can we get some statistics of the traffic?
I'm looking at the data and talking with mk. So right now we're at approximately 80 hits/minute at so far we have ???? new users. I'll post some comparisons from last years theoryofreddit frontpage post. Give me a minute. Our servers are hurting. mk and fowardslash have been working for the last 3 hours trying to sort it all out. 10/1 Midnight (east coast time) (reddit post was posted 9 hours ago): 10/2 1:45am: 3am East Coast Time (aka bed time) 9:30am EST (good morning!) Here is the graph of the last year: (updated graph, 3am): (updated graph, 9:30am) 9:30pm EST 10/2 That spike on the left is the /r/theoryofreddit post and you can see the spike today. And, if you are curious, we redid what we track on the analytics so that's why it looks like we've had a sudden drop in visitors....we really haven't. They are just on a different graph now.
I'm guessing it will be similar to last years. You can see them dwindle off slowly over the next month. It's so hard to tell on that graph. The hits from these posts are like 1000x our normal traffic so it squishes everything down.
I'm about to post more, give me a second. My boss is going to fucking kill me. I should be dressing up like a nice little lady to impress the corporate execs right now. Instead I'm jerking it to traffic influx.
Me too. Couldn't get on the hub at all, was very disappoint. Had to resort to circling humanodon on G+ and watching House of Cards. I am trying to not take a dim view of this. If I start seeing imageposts I will be unhappy. Everyone else is pretty positive about the influx, so...I suppose I can't complain. Not yet, anyway.
I do still use Reddit occasionally but it's because I've sorted through a lot of it and frontpaged about 50 small subreddits tailored to my interests and un-front-paged basically all the major ones. That reminds me, if AMA shows up here, I'm also going to punch my screen. But what does amaze me is how the front page changes between before I log in, and after. The front page is basically an imageboard now. That's great...if you don't like thinking
I have nothing wrong with imageboards. From time to time, I browse 4chan and 2chan just because the cultures fascinate me. What bothers me about images on reddit is that they prefer to make it honest instead of having a story to it. Then when you check the comments, the wide range of them all seem to lack the weight of wit. And the jokes are predictable. Maybe this is what it feels to be growing up.
That is something I would love to see. It'd be better to see the traffic starting a week before today leading up to a week or two from today. That way we could see the extent of the traffic spike and how much it dies down.