What is the Slashdot Effect?

Slashdot effect (Slashdot effect), also known as slashdotting , refers to the phenomenon of a surge in traffic on a niche website when a website with a wide audience introduces another niche website.

According to the Jargon File, the term "Slashdot effect" refers to the phenomenon that when a well-known news site Slashdot reported a website in an interesting article, many people came to crowd it and almost burst it. A similar phenomenon that happened after being included in other famous websites was also called by this term. This word corresponds to the more general and appropriate word flash crowd.

The word "flash crowd" was coined by Larry Niven in his short science fiction Flash Crowd in 1973. The novel predicts cheap

Sites such as Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Fark are made up of many "user-submitted posts" and user discussions under the posts. The system hides inappropriate replies through the user rating system. The most typical post introduces an interesting new item or new website, and then posts one to the source address

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There are many ways to cope with the Slashdot effect.

Some systems can automatically mirror any page that Slashdot links to, to ensure that the content of the website can continue to be accessed in the event that the original website fails. Websites that are being affected by the Slashdot effect can mitigate this effect by temporarily redirecting some page requests to these mirror stations. Slashdot itself will not mirror other people's sites on its own server, nor will it officially publish third-party solutions. Mirrored websites can lead to copyright infringement, and in many cases can lead to reduced advertising revenue on the original website. ^[2]