Slashdot, a user-generated news, analysis, peer question and professional insight community. Tech professionals moderate the site which averages more than 5,300 comments daily and 3.7 million unique visitors each month.
As I said before, we don't have a really good idea on the number of unique IPIDs visiting the site, but we do have solid numbers for our daily comment counts. Here's the graph as generated by slashcode for a biweekly period:
(due to a quirk in slashcode, the graphs don't update until 48 hours later; our comment count for 04/01 was 712 comments total).
Taking in account averages, we're roughly getting a little less than 10% of Slashdot's comment counts, with a considerably smaller user base. As I said, the OkCupid story made me take notice. Here's the comment counts at various scores between the two sites
| SoylentNews | Slashdot.org | --------------------------------------- Score -1 | 130 | 1017 | Score 0 | 130 | 1005 | Score 1 | 109 | 696 | Score 2 | 74 | 586 | Score 3 | 12 | 96 | Score 4 | 4 | 64 | Score 5 | 1 | 46 | ---------------------------------------Furthermore, I took a look at UIDs on the other site, the vast majority of comments came from 6/7 digit UID posters. Looking at CmdrTaco's Retirement Post as well as posts detailing the history of the other site most of the low UIDs are still around, and are simply in perma-lurk mode.
(Score: 1) by LordFrito on Wednesday April 02 2014, @07:18PM
Yeah I think the writing is on the wall with Reddit. I think the slide will be slow, but in a few years it will be just another wasted opportunity like Facebook. Shame too cause for a while I really held out hope for that site.
Hey I'm with you there. The funny thing is that seriously miss the days of usenet, geocities, and ugly as hell websites. The internet back then was an exciting adventure -- you never knew where the next link would take you.
I'm tired of Facebook. I'm tired of shiny touchscreens. I'm tired of apps. It's all form and no substance. I feast on information daily, only to find out that I'm starving. The Zero Theorem anyone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMSRRNHRos [youtube.com]