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50 days ago · Tech · hide · 8 comments

Bubbles —a site I am increasingly fond of as it’s turning up some wonderful posts and sites and people— was recently mentioned on Hackernews. I’ve followed Hackernews for a long time as a way to keep some form of view on the tech world (to which I am adjacent) but only check it every week or so. So I missed the moment when it happened, but there were signs… Can you spot when Bubbles got popular and then direct a fair chunk of traffic to my blog?? According to Benjamin Behnke, the Bubbles Bytewizard, the server itself was getting close to its limits, such is the price of (sudden) popularity. It’ll be interesting to see how the long tail of this pans out, how many people will visit Bubbles in the coming weeks as a result of this exposure. Time will tell. Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

Ben 🐘 @viermalbe@troet.cafe 50 days ago

@snowgoon Ah, you've beat me to the blog article about the Hacker News kiss of death :) I'll publish something about my experience as well over on the Bubbles blog in the next few days.

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- Gordon @snowgoon@mastodon.social 50 days ago
  
  @bubbles kiss of death? Thankful not! 😉
  
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  - Daniel Janus @nathell@mastodon.social 50 days ago
    
    @viermalbe @bubbles One of the perks of having a lightweight, static site is that even a modest server handles traffic from being #1 on HN just fine. :)
    
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Leandro @leandro@gts.p3l.ch 50 days ago

@snowgoon I really liked bubbles, I discovered more interesting readings than on HN.

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Fin @finjb@defcon.social 50 days ago

@snowgoon I look at the HN thread and what is one of the first things I see? Someone saying “Haha… the first post says ‘white supremacist dogwhistle’. How hilarious!” 😒

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- Gordon @snowgoon@mastodon.social 49 days ago
  
  @bubbles hilarious is an odd word. How is it hilarious? In a good way? In a bad way?
  
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  - Fin @finjb@defcon.social 49 days ago
    
    @bubbles I didn’t ask to figure out. My sense is that it’s some “anti-woke” nonsense.
    
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    - Gordon @snowgoon@mastodon.social 49 days ago
      
      @finjb agreed
      
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