I've been watching my website statistics in the wake of the the DW5-07 release. The traffic to my site has spiked dramatically, with the vast majority of it going (of course) to chapter 7 -- I've had 600 hits on the chapter since Friday, and almost as many on both the DW5 page and the overall DW main page.
Given that the FFML got a full text copy, and there aren't nearly 600 of you here at the forums, I think that means the word managed to get out a goodly number of unaffiliated folks...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Maybe there are a lot more lurkers here than you thought?
Can you track the referral websites to see where they're coming from?
The data I get doesn't cross-reference the inbound connections and the referring sites. But I can see where the most links are coming from; correlation is not causation, but there's probably a considerable overlap between the two. I don't have access to the stats here at work so I'll have to wait until I get home to get the exact listing -- but I can tell you the vast majority of links to my website come out of the forums. Surprise, surprise.
As for lurkers, I don't think so -- I rarely see more than one or two anonymous guests to the forums at a time, if I see any at all.
And judging from the links to it, it doesn't look like very many people use my RSS feed at all, so they're not coming from there.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Looks like The Fanfiction Forum has it show up in the 'updates' thread, with a bit of wondering over the fact that you're still 'Alive'. Referral to the TvTropes page for DW. Some bitching and moaning about how you've got a terrible backstory since you haven't finished the first arc, but a Christopher Robin there corrects it by explaining Lackey's (former) stand on 'fics. That's about it for them.
Hm. Maybe I'll see if I can branch my current creative turbocharging to give me a little DW1 along with the DW8...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Meh. Presenting the story out-of-order worked well enough for Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Rental Magica – if they can do it, so can you.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
It worked just fine for Horatio Hornblower, too ... and Richard Bolitho, for that matter. (One of the Bolitho books set before he became a captain has him mention, on reporting to a new ship, that his best friend was killed recently. The story detailing that death wasn't written until 28 years later. Bolitho was already a captain in the first book written.)
Edit: My stupid mistake. I know better than to post a date like that without checking it if I can, and I still did it. 25 years later, not 28.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Y'know, I'm fairly irritated at the TVTropes people. They seem bound and determined to carefully gloss over my involvement in DW5.
jpub Wrote:Y'know, I'm fairly irritated at the TVTropes people. They seem bound and determined to carefully gloss over my involvement in DW5.
See GenChat for the
TVTropes complaint thread...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012