A People's History of the United States -
History of the US from the perspective of the Indians, Slaves, and Laborers.
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Monday, 14 September 2015
quote [ OMG it's like quizzes and like they're so awesome and like and like like. ]
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steele said @ 7:16pm GMT on 14th September
It's a start, b. SE basically burnt out any connections it had to actual traffic sources over the years. Any traffic through links that might've still been pointed towards the old site are lost to us and Marck stopped cultivating new connections long ago.We're basically starting from scratch with nothing but a sliver of the userbase numbers of old. That means I've also got no negotiating power to get us any decent link trades. Best I can come up with is to start our own satellites.
If the numbers do get up to a making it a few bucks a day, getting us to EC2 also gives us more options than just my little toys I'm working on. It offers stability. We currently can't handle any sort of real traffic that a decent referral linking would pull in for us. If you were to drop a link to SE in a rising reddit thread we probably wouldn't be able to access the site for a few days and we're definitely not in the situation that we can just turn on additional servers to handle the temporary boost.
Way I figure it, if I can do it right on the quiz side, I can at least gradually bleed users that have been pre-vetted by the quizzes. Think Last Starfighter style. Specific quizzes will designed to lean more towards make sure they're the type of person that would fit in and contribute. It's not necessarily advertising SE so much as making SE a discovery, something they've found for being them, a place that fits. Which I think is something many of us felt about SE when we found it.
steele said @ 7:37pm GMT on 14th September
It's a start, b. SE basically burnt out any connections it had to actual traffic sources over the years. Any traffic through links that might've still been pointed towards the old site are lost to us and Marck stopped cultivating new connections long ago.We're basically starting from scratch with nothing but a sliver of the userbase numbers of old. That means I've also got no negotiating power to get us any decent link trades. Best I can come up with is to start our own satellites.
If the numbers do get up to a making it a few bucks a day, getting us to EC2 also gives us more options than just my little toys I'm working on. It offers stability. We currently can't handle any sort of real traffic that a decent referral linking would pull in for us. If you were to drop a link to SE in a rising reddit thread we probably wouldn't be able to access the site for a few days and we're definitely not in the situation that we can just turn on additional servers to handle the temporary boost.
Way I figure it, if I can do it right on the quiz side, I can at least gradually bleed users that have been pre-vetted by the quizzes. Think Last Starfighter style. Specific quizzes will be designed to lean more towards making sure they're the type of person that would fit in and contribute. It's not necessarily advertising SE so much as making SE a discovery, something they've found for being them, a place that fits. Which I think is something many of us felt about SE when we found it.
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steele said @ 7:16pm GMT on 14th September
It's a start, b. SE basically burnt out any connections it had to actual traffic sources over the years. Any traffic through links that might've still been pointed towards the old site are lost to us and Marck stopped cultivating new connections long ago.We're basically starting from scratch with nothing but a sliver of the userbase numbers of old. That means I've also got no negotiating power to get us any decent link trades. Best I can come up with is to start our own satellites.
If the numbers do get up to a making it a few bucks a day, getting us to EC2 also gives us more options than just my little toys I'm working on. It offers stability. We currently can't handle any sort of real traffic that a decent referral linking would pull in for us. If you were to drop a link to SE in a rising reddit thread we probably wouldn't be able to access the site for a few days and we're definitely not in the situation that we can just turn on additional servers to handle the temporary boost.
Way I figure it, if I can do it right on the quiz side, I can at least gradually bleed users that have been pre-vetted by the quizzes. Think Last Starfighter style. Specific quizzes will be designed to lean more towards making sure they're the type of person that would fit in and contribute. It's not necessarily advertising SE so much as making SE a discovery, something they've found for being them, a place that fits. Which I think is something many of us felt about SE when we found it.
I'm starting excitelike off with an array of pop style quizzes at the moment but eventually hope to branch them off into somewhat intellectual stuff. Basically take tests from college textbooks and turn them into popular quizzes just to get people thinking. If we're lucky once the site really gets going it will make a few bucks a day that I can put towards getting SE onto amazon's cloud service so things will be a bit more stable and we'll have the resources to do some of the cool stuff (XP, achievements, etc) I've been playing around with in the background, but haven't brought live because they're too resource intensive.
This is basically a call out for people to play around with site, kind of beta test things, and if you guys are down, help kickstart the viral process by sharing stuff on social networks you may be involved with. If anyone has suggestions for quizzes that you think might go over well with their friends, or stuff you might like to see, I'm open to suggestion and would appreciate it. Thank you.