The trials & tribulations of maintaining a Linux page
I've been a Slashdot reader for a few years, something that's much easier when you set your comments view to only show the better posts, and I'm all-too-aware of the Slashdot effect.
Accordingly, my heart skips a beat every time I check my stats and see that somebody was referred to my site via /.
So far, it's always been linked from comments a reasonable way down, fortunately. I don't think my server could survive a direct link from the front page. . .
But it can be very interesting to see where my stuff winds up getting linked from. You get a lot more feedback by seeing what people say about you in forums than you do waiting for them to tell you directly via email or comments.
Of course, you have to be prepared for the "What a load of crap" comments (especially from people who haven't actually read what you wrote, for some reason) but even those can be constructive. And it's always nice to see that people have linked to your stuff because they think it's a worthwhile read.
The latest ego-boost: LinuxForums.org have made a link to my site a sticky in the Newbie forum. So at least a moderator thinks it's a good read ;o)
Accordingly, my heart skips a beat every time I check my stats and see that somebody was referred to my site via /.
So far, it's always been linked from comments a reasonable way down, fortunately. I don't think my server could survive a direct link from the front page. . .
But it can be very interesting to see where my stuff winds up getting linked from. You get a lot more feedback by seeing what people say about you in forums than you do waiting for them to tell you directly via email or comments.
Of course, you have to be prepared for the "What a load of crap" comments (especially from people who haven't actually read what you wrote, for some reason) but even those can be constructive. And it's always nice to see that people have linked to your stuff because they think it's a worthwhile read.
The latest ego-boost: LinuxForums.org have made a link to my site a sticky in the Newbie forum. So at least a moderator thinks it's a good read ;o)
2 Comments:
Yes, I like to check out my web stats as well. Sometimes you can be amazed at the places from which you're referred.
It's not always easy to check out though because some might be from pages which require authentication (obviously it requires being logged in to view).
But anyway, it's an interesting exercise. I wrote about it too:
http://hari.literaryforums.org/2005/10/08/an-interesting-exercise/
Oops. Here's a clickable link to that article.
An interesting exercise
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