On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:02:20AM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > Speaking of Reddit... we should have the FPL do an AMA soon, or around > one of the releases. Ooh, yep. > > * 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. Sorry; obscure comment. It's a joke because at least as early as 1999 there was Slashdot trend which became kind of a meme where people would complain about how the site sucked compared to how it used to be. Not that Slashdot effect wasn't real. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
