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[Andy44]

.... And Ctrl+P still works. I never use clicks. :lol:

I love how computers still have a "print screen" button but it's been a long time since I've seen it actually print the screen...

 

[C3PO]

At the company Xmas party one of the guys told me that he had to cut down on beer. He was getting Guinness elbow. :lol:

 

[Unstung]

NASA launched New Horizons. New Horizons is going to Pluto. Pluto was the ninth planet. Nine is three times three. A triangle has three sides and three corners. NASA is the Illuminati.

 

[orb]

{...} New Horizons is going to Pluto. Pluto was the ninth planet. Nine is three times three. A triangle has three sides and three corners. {...}

Half-Life 3 confirmed (when New Horizons arrives at Pluto)!

 

[Artlav]

A random and unexpected observation:
About 2000 people visited one of my sites after it was linked on Reddit.
Of them, only 20 followed any of the links there to other projects and posts.

I find that really peculiar.
If you went and found something interesting on a site, wouldn't it be natural to look at what else is there?
They weren't bots either - these would either scan all the links, or zoom in onto the comments and try spamming.

 

[Unstung]

Your traffic is from reddit, so expect low audience engagement. Most people who browse reddit mindlessly click links.

EDIT: You developed Orulex?
:hail:

 

[jedidia]

I find that really peculiar.

Means one percent of the people dropping in took a closer interest. Not too bad a ratio, actually.

To bring up some comparisons: In topical, personal advertisement (like newsletters people sign up for), a response rate (that is, people that signed up for the newsletter that actually read it) of 10% is considered great. In topical non-personal advertisement (that is, the advertisement apears in a place where people can be assumed to be interested in it) 1 percent is bliss. In non-topical advertisement, a response rate of anything higher than 1 permille is pure fracking ecstasy and the person resonsible for it can confidently ask for a pay-raise...

 

[Athena]

 

[mojoey]

Do you ever have one of those days...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7bb_1419000376#RYQmYgpq4Gde8jHY.16

 

[Artlav]

audience engagement

To bring up some comparisons
...
personal advertisement
...
non-personal advertisement
...
response rate

Hm, and you learned this... how, exactly?
I mean, it's not particularly difficult to look up advertising and it's statistics at some point, but how do you even begin to think on how to think to realise the link between that and how people browse what they come across?

You developed Orulex?

Yep.
These were the good old days.

 

[jedidia]

Hm, and you learned this... how, exactly?

I've been funded by donations for ten years, and while my case wasn't really comparable, I still went through the schooling. But that's not really what you asked.

but how do you even begin to think on how to think to realise the link between that and how people browse what they come across?

I'm not familiar with the precise methods used for marketing evaluation, really. But in the end, I presume it boils down to statistics, and the data for those is pretty plentiful and precise in the days of online marketing. There's people not doing much else than marketing evaluation, and I would assume they know their job.

 

[MattBaker]

Do you ever have one of those days...

Liveleak link, ambigious title...I'm not sure if I want to click that.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Liveleak link, ambigious title...I'm not sure if I want to click that.

:hitit:

And yeah, I've had days that feel like that. (the guy watching, not the guy at fault)

 

[Artlav]

I've been funded by donations for ten years

Interesting. How does that work, in practice?

But in the end, I presume it boils down to statistics, and the data for those is pretty plentiful and precise in the days of online marketing. There's people not doing much else than marketing evaluation, and I would assume they know their job.

I won't be surprised they do, and in hindsight it makes sense to look in that direction.

However, how do you get from one to the other?

Advertisement is an art of legally annoying people, you'd expect them to click, take a look, and leave. And so, make metrics like audience engagement and so on.

A link in a topic-specific place, on the other hand, is something people are expected to follow only if they are interested. And so it makes sense to think about it in terms of regular web browsing.

These two seem to be conceptually different, non-intersecting things.
What is the line of thinking that bridges them?

 

[Urwumpe]

RIP Udo Jürgens

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

A random and unexpected observation:
About 2000 people visited one of my sites after it was linked on Reddit.
Of them, only 20 followed any of the links there to other projects and posts.

I find that really peculiar.
If you went and found something interesting on a site, wouldn't it be natural to look at what else is there?
They weren't bots either - these would either scan all the links, or zoom in onto the comments and try spamming.

I suspect its due to a couple of things:

-The site is kinda unconventional in the style, and most people have no idea what most of your projects are. Its not that the webpage looks bad, but the lack of a shiny looking UI might not appeal to some people. To see what I mean, compare the look of the site against the orbiter homepage.
-There arent any pictures. If you had a nice picture of say spaceway underneath a link to that page, a lot more users might be tempted to take a look and see what that pretty thing was. Without pictures, and maybe a short description of each project, names like Orulex or OGLA dont mean anything to the average person who takes a look at the site. Pictures really are worth a thousand words.

Just my 2/5 nickel :tiphat:

By the way, I like the background with the stars, it does look nice IMO.

 

[Artlav]

The site is kinda unconventional in the style
...
To see what I mean, compare the look of the site against the orbiter homepage.

I don't see any large differences - both have a panel of links to the side, and content in the middle, all on a space-y background.
What exactly matters?

As a matter of fact, what exactly is unconventional?
Sidebar+content area is about as conventional a design as i can find - look at any site from Wikipedia to Orbithangar.

-There arent any pictures.

I tried that on the Spaceway site, to unknown effect.

Do you have something like this in mind?
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk

That kind of layout tend to trip the billboard filters - the loads of pictures just feel like noise to me.
If that was lined up on a sidebar, then i won't even recognize them as content - a "picture with link on a sidebar" is hardcoded as advertisement and does not register as being here.

Are these just quirks of my perception?

 

[fsci123]

Looking to team up with modeler

Hi everybody... Would anyone be interested in helping me or recommending someone who would be interested in helping me improve some of my space ship models I'm designing for a competition. I'm pretty much looking for someone who is willing to add detail(RCS thrusters, radar, antennas, wires, tubing, etc) to a basic model I will create.

I am willing to provide monetary compensation.

If you are interested... IM me.
If you know someone who is interested... IM me their contact info.

Thanks

Fsci

Note: I will donate the resulting model to the orbiter community after I win(or loose) the competition.

 

[Unstung]

Hm, and you learned this... how, exactly?

A video I posted on reddit got hundreds of upvotes and a couple thousand views from the site. I ended up getting one or two comments on the video, but there was more activity in the video's thread.

Comparing the number of reddit votes to comments, it appears that most people lurk the website. Those who comment on a thread are a minority, and maybe even those who vote. Surely the top links on reddit get more exposure than the few thousand people who vote on them. Even fewer people interact with the content that's been posted.

Judging by what stories become really popular and the comments on their threads, it appears that almost nobody even reads articles other than the title. Many poorly written articles become popular, especially articles that appeal to group thought even though the content is irrational.

Since the majority of people cannot be bothered to spend more than a few seconds on something, that may be why images become so popular on subreddits that allow them. I find that r/space has become no better than r/spaceporn because what gets popular on r/space are just images.

The title you gave your link may have appealed to people so they clicked it an upvoted your link. Most viewers didn't care more than that. Comparing reddit to advertising seems fair, as jedidia has done.

 

[Artlav]

Comparing the number of reddit votes to comments, it appears that most people lurk the website. Those who comment on a thread are a minority, and maybe even those who vote.

4000 views, 100 votes, 16 comments in the thread, 0 comments on the site or related video.
Sounds about right.

Judging by what stories become really popular and the comments on their threads, it appears that almost nobody even reads articles other than the title.

Or they only do short and to the point ones.
The most activity Spaceway ever seen was after i just spoke my mind in a progress report without paying much attention, since i expected it to be read by a dozen of people at best.
Someone linked it on Reddit, generating a few thousand views across the site.
As the comments said, "this hits right in the feels".

So, immediate emotional engagement might be a big factor.

The title you gave your link may have appealed to people so they clicked it an upvoted your link. Most viewers didn't care more than that. Comparing reddit to advertising seems fair, as jedidia has done.

Hm. Okay, what about other audiences than Reddit?
Hackaday, for example (link in question is a hardware project)?
Or is it a general attitude across the social media like that?