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Getting 10,000 people who read music blogs to hit its front page at the same time proved to be too much of a challenge for the music-blog aggregator The Hype Machine, so the powers that be over there abandoned their virtual sit-in and threw open the doors to the new, pretty, spying-enabled version. [Hype Machine]
9:14 AM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By mjohnston
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yeah, 10,000 was quite ambitious for them. i kept the window open all day and the highest number i saw was somewhere in the 3000s.
The maximum of real onlookers I saw was 3366, but apparently legitimately it got up to 3888.
It was a fluke I actually saw it tick over since I had had the page open for around 10 hours, but when it happened, the counter got up to 812793630. It must have ticked up to one below a billion and open before it refresh the number from that. Weird way to for it, you think they could have built in an open function.
If you don't mind me posting the url I took some screenshots and posted them.
[discgoisum.blogspot.com]
I think 5k would've been on the doable end of ambitious. 10k was just silly. My initial reaction to the redesign is mostly positive. No more of this silly pop-up business. And none of the things I do with the site appear to have been obfuscated/drastically changed/whatever.
Oh, and the max. I saw was somewhere in the mid 3400s, but that was a peak before it floated back down into the upper 3300s. I didn't see it change over because a little bird told me a valid beta username/password and I just started using the site.
@sparkletone: Ditto. I went over to Digg to check out what the comments were about. Whether people were sick of waiting. They were, so people in the know started talking.
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