Pressflip launched last Thursday, and there has been a flurry of traffic so far. Myself, Kyle, and I celebrated a bit the night of the launch (pictured above). Within the first day we had more than one thousand registered users, and are still growing.
There was some good fail to fix, a few bugs here and there, but nothing catastrophic.
I found out today that TechCrunch's Michael Arrington doesn't like it, but that comes as no surprise - there are no shiny things on the site.
Anyway, there's a bit of a back story to this that not a lot of people know. When I wrote Uncov, I pointed out the widespread incompetence that had metastasized on the internet. I got pretty popular, to the point where Uncov could have been a self sustaining business. Now, it's a well known fact that I am the greatest living technical writer, and carrying this burden is no easy task. After I stopped writing Uncov, Arrington tried to hire me to write for TechCrunch. I refused, for obvious reasons.
I refused to kneel before Arrington, and this is my consequence. Not that it matters, though. Our usage statistics and server logs suggest that people like Pressflip. I've seen some very interesting queries go through the system, and people are coming back for news on a wide variety of topics.
That reminds me, I need to write a log processor. Does anyone know of anything better that AWStats? Don't say Google Analytics. There's no Javascript on our site and I'm kind of proud of that. E-mail me: tjdziuba@gmail.com.
There was some good fail to fix, a few bugs here and there, but nothing catastrophic.
I found out today that TechCrunch's Michael Arrington doesn't like it, but that comes as no surprise - there are no shiny things on the site.
Anyway, there's a bit of a back story to this that not a lot of people know. When I wrote Uncov, I pointed out the widespread incompetence that had metastasized on the internet. I got pretty popular, to the point where Uncov could have been a self sustaining business. Now, it's a well known fact that I am the greatest living technical writer, and carrying this burden is no easy task. After I stopped writing Uncov, Arrington tried to hire me to write for TechCrunch. I refused, for obvious reasons.
I refused to kneel before Arrington, and this is my consequence. Not that it matters, though. Our usage statistics and server logs suggest that people like Pressflip. I've seen some very interesting queries go through the system, and people are coming back for news on a wide variety of topics.
That reminds me, I need to write a log processor. Does anyone know of anything better that AWStats? Don't say Google Analytics. There's no Javascript on our site and I'm kind of proud of that. E-mail me: tjdziuba@gmail.com.