On Sep 29, 2014 12:02 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 09/29/2014 07:41 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > So, Slashdot ain't what it used to be*, but one link to my shellshock > > article at the bottom of a slashdot post covering multiple shellshock things > > (that is, not even featuring mine) and slashdot is now the top referrer of > > the last 30 days by a comfortable margin, and that puts it 5 for non-Fedora > > sources for all time. > > Yeah, it's weird, but there's still an audience there. (I say "weird" > because these days Slashdot tends to be much slower than other tech news > sources. By the time something winds up on /. I've usually seen it > already via Twitter, Reddit, LWN, etc.) > > > Conclusion: we should really try to get on slashdot more. > > Might be good for a few people to take point on that. I've been trying > to make sure posts get to Twitter, and I think Ryan has been doing > Google+. (Probably too soon to worry about Ello...) > > Reddit and Hacker News are also very good sources of traffic, if you can > get on the front page*. I have been posting on /r/Linux a bit lately too which has been yielding some good response > > * Reddit "front page" varies by subscriber/subreddit, of course. A > high-ranked post on /r/fedora won't drive as many folks as a post on > /r/linux, and that won't land as many readers as /r/technology. > > Speaking of Reddit... we should have the FPL do an AMA soon, or around > one of the releases. > > > * the joke is, of course, that it never was. > > Kinda disagree here. In its heyday, Slashdot could send a pretty hefty > firehose of traffic if you made the front page. This was ~8+ years ago, > though, then Digg started to supplant Slashdot [1], and then Reddit and > other sites crushed Digg, etc. > > [1] http://kottke.org/06/01/digg-vs-slashdot > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst > jzb@xxxxxxxxxx | http://community.redhat.com/ > Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing