Slashdotted
Wondering why the site is crushingly slow? The UnSuggester was written up in Slashdot this morning, and the traffic is unbelievable.
So - go get a cup of coffee or hot chocolate (it snowed here in Boston last night, so that's what I'm doing) and surf something else for a bit, read some of those books, or even ponder doing some work - and give us a chance to catch up!
So - go get a cup of coffee or hot chocolate (it snowed here in Boston last night, so that's what I'm doing) and surf something else for a bit, read some of those books, or even ponder doing some work - and give us a chance to catch up!
posted by Abby at 11:10 AM
25 Comments:
Heh heh - I'm the so-and-so who submitted this to Slashdot. Figured your could use the publicity. ^_^
Just curious, what made you submit the Unsuggester when you did? Did someone pass it on to you this weekend, or were you long aware of it?
Hey—thanks. :)
Hey—thanks. :)
Anonymous:
I've been aware of LibraryThing for about a month. It was instantly obvious when I finally got around to signing up that it needed to be Slashdotted. I did in fact just find Unsuggester this weekend, and thought "Ha, there's the hook - just the right blend of 'quirk' and 'tech' for the Slashdot crowd."
The one advantage of being on a dial-up is: my connection to LibraryThing is always "crushingly slow".
This gives me time to read the books on the shelf while the page loads.
All kidding aside, always prepare for more guests than the amount you invited.
I hope the system can grow with the flow: I found LibraryThing from a write-up in New Scientist, and I'm now contributing to the potentially exponential word-of-mouth explosion of interest.
...as one of the guilty party (i.e., new users roped in by slashdot), let me say "sorry," and "nice to meet you."
and: Universal Import rocks.
More traffic for you means more awesome for everyone! Congrats and keep up the excellent work, Tim, Abby, et al!
http://www.librarything.com/profile/attemptress
The effect of /.
From the Zeitgeist:
Books entered in the last 24 hours = 0
OK. While you all are waiting will someone please help an ancient lady: All I want is for my catalog to list my books alphabetically by author. I have had it that way (truly!) but not now. . . what ever caused it to change please put it back. . . Thank you! esta 1923
esta 1923,
Try clicking on the word "author" at the top of the library page. You can sort by any of the headings.
Congrats Tim! You know you're truly famous (or infamous) in the web world when you've made slashdot.
So, I've long wondered... This "slashdotted" phenomenon - is it a 10x traffic spike? a 100x spike?
Tim - can you tell us what sort of traffic gets generated by a mention on Slashdot?
Help another old lady please! I once was able to export my book list to create an excel document but now, for the life of me, I can't do it. What is the secret that I stumbled upon?
try the Joy tab. At the right hand side of that page you see import/export. either CSV or tab delimited output should import into excel.
Thank you! I've now found my ideal "anti-book". If you enter "can you keep a secret" it comes up with a brilliant reading list. This is much better than amazon style "suggestion", which never works for me. Know your anti-book!
linkmeister,
You can search the blog by visiting this page:
http://search.blogger.com/advanced_blog_search?ui=blg
(sometimes links don't show well on this UI, so you can also go to http://search.blogger.com/ then "advanced search")
and entering in the libraryThing blog url (http://www.librarything.com/blog/) into the "at this URL" section of it (in the "in blogs" section")
Then enter your term above and search away.
Linkmeister: I'm not sure. Does anyone know blogger well?
Linkmeister, Tim,
The search functionality I mentioned a few comments above works because Tim's blog is powered by Lapsang Souchong! It has nothing to do with blogger. ;)
Re: "Books entered in the last 24 hours = 0"
No, that's a corrupt table. We fix 'em when we find em. Indeed, when that request hit the corruption, it generated a fix—too late, alas. Anyway, it's good now.
On traffic: It was more like a 2x spike--we're pretty big now. it would have been more, but we lost much of the morning to the size of the spike, which was well over 2.
Michael: I'll look into adding that as a box on the blog.
"Know your anti-book": Excellent.
> Is there a ... "search" function [for] the blog?
See also here.
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