alexa.com— Looks like Digg is about to catch slashdot. Man the rapid growth of this site is amazing. Congrats to all that work on Digg...
Nov 9, 2005View in Crawl 4
too bad alexa ratings dont mean squat...but, by this time next year we can all hope that slashdot will just be a faint memory, digg will be easily dominating it by then
Has it occured to anyone that we should be trying to keep these numbers down? Anyone who uses the Alexa toolbar is a moron. Therefore, all this is saying is that troll levels on Digg.com have nearly reached Slashdot levels. Disclaimer: I hate Slashdot, but I'm just sayin'!
It's interesting - there aren't many stories on /. that go 'yea /.!' but it seems like there are way too many 'yea digg!' stories over here. Who cares? Is your life more meaningful if Digg gets more hits than /.? (More hits from spyware users, even.) Both sites are good in different ways. I actually expect Digg to catch up to /. eventually, because /. is generally oriented towards real technical people, and Digg is easier for fanboys - they can just see Linux/Apple/Google/Firefox in the title and 'Digg it' without understanding it or discussing it. There are a lot more fanboys than techs in the world. Hey, maybe that explains the 'yea Digg!' affect! Don't get me wrong - I love Digg, and it has a lot of great links, but there is no competition between the two sites - some overlap, sure, but they really serve different purposes.
pyrolistical wins the thread. Slashdot has nearly THREE times as many daily readers (among those who allow Alexa to track them). Sure, Digg users visit more often during a day, but as someone else noted, that's due to it's design.
evilpigNov 9, 2005
f**k alexa who uses there toolbar anyway
thegooseyoneNov 9, 2005
too bad alexa ratings dont mean squat...but, by this time next year we can all hope that slashdot will just be a faint memory, digg will be easily dominating it by then
jay314Nov 9, 2005
@soave:I think you mean August.. either way, I'd say that's when college kids got back to school and back online.
_____3Nov 9, 2005
read this<a class="user" href="http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=12">http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=12</a>What do you call software that tracks and reports internet usage. All together now class: "SPYWARE"The 188 people who have dugg this thus far just showed their asses.
theone3Nov 9, 2005
Has it occured to anyone that we should be trying to keep these numbers down? Anyone who uses the Alexa toolbar is a moron. Therefore, all this is saying is that troll levels on Digg.com have nearly reached Slashdot levels. Disclaimer: I hate Slashdot, but I'm just sayin'!
bigpoppatNov 9, 2005
It's interesting - there aren't many stories on /. that go 'yea /.!' but it seems like there are way too many 'yea digg!' stories over here. Who cares? Is your life more meaningful if Digg gets more hits than /.? (More hits from spyware users, even.) Both sites are good in different ways. I actually expect Digg to catch up to /. eventually, because /. is generally oriented towards real technical people, and Digg is easier for fanboys - they can just see Linux/Apple/Google/Firefox in the title and 'Digg it' without understanding it or discussing it. There are a lot more fanboys than techs in the world. Hey, maybe that explains the 'yea Digg!' affect! Don't get me wrong - I love Digg, and it has a lot of great links, but there is no competition between the two sites - some overlap, sure, but they really serve different purposes.
xinexNov 9, 2005
Traffic != quality
jmz668Nov 9, 2005
dolby, you're a moron
termalNov 9, 2005
pyrolistical wins the thread. Slashdot has nearly THREE times as many daily readers (among those who allow Alexa to track them). Sure, Digg users visit more often during a day, but as someone else noted, that's due to it's design.