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Welcome to everyone visiting from Slashdot! The story generated some good discussion, including
- FT isn’t BitTorrent (but how they might work together)
- why it’s OK that there’s some conceptual overlap with NNTP
- a good response to a reasonable question: what’s the problem, exactly?
It wasn’t really the bump in users I was hoping for; at our peak this afternoon we had about 35 nodes, and we’re currently back down to 30 or so. This is still a huge increase from what we had before, and the Scribe trees seem to be operating well. (Those of you subscribed to this feed ought to see a prompt update as soon as this entry is posted!)
The power law is in full effect, judging by my network stats; it appears that there are twice as many users subscribed to Slashdot’s feed as the next most-popular feed, and there are a whole lot of feeds with just one subscriber.
Here’s a little bonus for all the new users out there: a few of those web badges that seem to be so enduringly popular. If you’re pushing RSS or Atom updates via FeedTree, drop in a 
icon to let your users know they can get faster updates (and save you bandwidth).