maestro8 pointed out to me that I’ve been slashdotted. Usually it’s considered a good thing, though I’m still trying to figure out if it is or not.
I have no idea what slashdotted is and I want to learn now!
It’s when a website of yours gets mentioned on the front page of slashdot.org, that being my tinyurl.com website.
“Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.”
I’m afraid, Sir Gilby /. …
David
congrats are in order I think!
so:
Congrats!
Was there ever any doubt?
That’s a pretty creative storage idea. Okay, I’m going to try this baby out. I’ve got a few linux DVD images that should do the trick… 
Nobody over there reads the articles so it’s doubtful you got any extra traffic to TinyURL because of it. ;-^)
So now people are going to try to store their porn in the TinyURL database. Tis an abuse of the database even if it’s not explicitly stated as such in the TOS.
When you get mentioned on the front page of Slashdot.org you can get a LOT of traffic. They like to joke about their ability to bring down a server due to the sudden traffic load of all the Slashdot members going to the site at the same time. And they have crashed servers before due to the Slashdot effect.
Wikipedia:
Slashdot
Slashdot effect
Hmmm… they might not read, but they do click the ads.
I did check /. earlier today, but missed the mention of TinyURL on it.
By the sounds of most of the comments, TinyURL is pretty screwed.
Is it really so bad?
Holy Mole’ splatman!! YOU’RE tinyurl.com??? 
I had absolutely no idea – i should’ve looked at the bottom of the page. Wow. TinyURL is unquestionably one of The Most Useful sites on the web. Thank you a billion trillion times!
My geek friends are going to be so impressed when they find out i “know” the tinyurl guy.
wow!
.max
I’m really not surprised. I see people using tinyurl about everyday. It’s popular among the bicycling mailing lists that I subscribe to, since long urls don’t always work well in e-mail.
way to go…
Joe in Iowa
nice work gilby. i’d bet your servers stay up because most geeks (myself included) already know about tinyurl and how freaking useful it is. hence no need to slashdot it to death.
Way to go, Gilford! Now that you’re really somebody, we’ll have to give you a more posh name.
No… the database hasn’t grown much as a result… not nearly the 50 GB in a day the guy mentioned in his presentation when he anticipated that it’d be posted on slashdot.
I just noticed on Daily Rotation that Tiny Disk got mentioned again. This time at Shell Extension City. Certainly not a Slashdot, but it means the story is still making the rounds.
Thanks for the heads up… so far the whole thing hasn’t been much of an issue, other than blocking a couple users from the TinyURL servers. The TinyURL database is now 3.0 GB, and on the day of it being slashdotted it was 2.8 GB.
Just in case you missed it; This article may be a spin-off translation of it.