The Really Unpleasant Computer Problem viewed by flood

buster · May 05, 2025, 12:02:31 PM

94,135

That's the number of views for the unpleasant computer story, which is a totally unrealistic number. That's almost a thousand a day.

And it's only in second place behind a forum started by BusterE, "The Fallout from Covid 19", which is rocketing ahead for some reason. I read the Covid thread this morning, and it is a good look back at the start of the whole thing. It ran for about a month with quite a few ideas, and Jason added a new post in March I believe.

Still, the popularity of both is unexpected.

Maybe reality has no part to play in the virtual world. I still suspect aliens.

buster · May 08, 2025, 05:20:50 PM

This is an insert into this thread because of an unusual event taking place as I type.

The 100,000 views barrier is going to be broken this evening by a dark horse breaking into the lead.

The "Fallout from Covid 19" has surged from behind out of nowhere, well ahead of "The Really Unpleasant Computer Problem", which should reach the magic number about next midweek.

Strange things happening on the Peterborough Linux site.

buster · May 14, 2025, 12:49:27 PM

'The Really Unpleasant Computer Problem' reached 6 digit numbers in its views overnight.

ssfc72 · May 15, 2025, 08:26:23 AM

Nice going! NetFlix will probably make a movie series, based on it. :-)

Jason · May 17, 2025, 11:05:32 PM

Quote from: ssfc72 on May 15, 2025, 08:26:23 AMNice going! NetFlix will probably make a movie series, based on it. :-)

Or Buster will.

Jason · May 20, 2025, 04:45:17 PM

Quote from: buster on May 01, 2025, 05:09:52 PMSo that will be Jason, Bill, Mike and Harry (sort of) will get a free coffee and a sweet. I'd also like to treat anyone on the list that included those who contributed to the story and helped to make it better.

While we post the most, more members do post nowadays. Credit where credit is due.

Jason · May 20, 2025, 04:47:08 PM

Quote from: buster on May 08, 2025, 05:20:50 PMThe "Fallout from Covid 19" has surged from behind out of nowhere, well ahead of "The Really Unpleasant Computer Problem", which should reach the magic number about next midweek.

I expect the COVID thread surged because I put a new post there recently. Google (and other search engines) put a lot of value on the "freshness" of pages.

Jason · May 20, 2025, 04:51:14 PM

Quote from: buster on May 05, 2025, 12:02:31 PMThat's the number of views for the unpleasant computer story, which is a totally unrealistic number. That's almost a thousand a day.

Why is that unrealistic? I've seen the stats for some other websites, and the PLUG Forum gets a lot of traffic. I'm not saying they're all readers. And keep in mind those views are for the entire topic, which spans several pages. It's by page views, not topic views. The more pages in a topic, the more page views it will generate because every page is a new view.