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Duncan wrote: |
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>>Number of users subscribed to gentoo-announce: 7,988 |
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>>Total number of GETs on our home page and news feed in a *single day*: 75,302 |
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>>from 19,240 different IPs (on Sunday 2005-10-30). |
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> I read announce very regularly (checking it several times a day, most |
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> days), but wouldn't show up in your announce stats. Why? Because I |
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> subscribe to gmane.org's gmane.linux.gentoo.announce newsgroup. |
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> Bottom line, then, announce has far more readers than the ones Gentoo |
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> tracks thru its subscription list. A wild guess, as it'd take some work |
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> to make it anything more than that, would put it on par with the |
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> gentoo.org front page. It may actually get more circulation than the |
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> front page. (That said, as others have posted, if more news gets posted |
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> to the front page, those unique IP counts will probably go up accordingly. |
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> LWN and others could easily grab from there, as well.) |
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Of course there are more readers than subscribed ones. |
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Far more, I doubt it, how many would that be? |
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As many as our front page and news feed, definitely not. |
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FYI, 81,054 different IPs have hit our front page or the news feed in just 5 |
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days, and we're talking about a resource where hardly anything but the GWN and |
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the occasional GDP status is ever posted. |
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Anyway, it's not like we had to choose between them, it's a trivial thing to |
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post a news item to -announce. |
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