Here's that analysis we promised of what happened yesterday traffic-wise (tldr: everything went better than expected).

Have there been a lot of new subscribers in the last few days?

Thank you for not saying "over 9000".

What is the average total donation per user so far?

Nice. ~$40,000/month.

Did you mean: *[recursion](http://www.listnook.com/r/announcements/comments/d7uc6/heres_that_analysis_we_promised_of_what_happened/c0y85xi)*

One typo could have made that a very controversial sentence.

Except they're even unproductive at being unproductive, seeing as how they get their shit 48 hours later. *KA-POW!*

1. Open Browser. 2. Go on listnook 3. Click headline/read comments 4. Get bored and close browser 5. Repeat

I've been here for 11 days straight... :/

But if you're here, and listnook is your work, and your name indicates that you are clearly not working...I'm so confused.

In case you didn't know, raldi is important around here.

Should've used the red admin title here.

1 tall glass of shameless flattery, coming right up!

Careful! If you come on too strong he'll friendzone you!

Smooch, raldi, smooch!

This is the problem with the numbers-based thinking of old school marketers. A 17 year old black kid and a 40 year old white woman can both hold the same purchasing potential for whatever your product is. Demographics-based marketing is based on vague generalizations. Why do that when you can hit your target market with much more accuracy by looking at their interests and behaviors? Listnook has the potential to offer this goldmine of information based on what users post, comment, and upvote/downvote. I don't know if the Listnook staff actually has the models to do this, but they are missing out if they don't. Take for example an outdoor company like REI. They can try to target 18-30 males making $40k+ a year, but they are likely going to be serving ads to a large proportion of people who have no interest. Wasted money. Now take the same company, and have them target users who frequently upvote/comment on stories regarding outdoor activities and display other behaviors that are highly correlated with the outdoors type of person (which can found through some research). Tapping into that community and speaking to them directly (make them feel as if REI is really participating with Listnook) would offer a much higher return on investment. Smart models are still being developed (you see them with Amazon and Netflix recommendation engine or Pandora's music genome project), but I think there is huge potential in the future and Listnook could be the testing grounds of a model that can be implemented across all community-based sites.

With names: [listnook game 2: super fill-up](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-2) [listnook game 3: collapse region of same color](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-3) [listnook game 4: attack bricks with ping pong ball](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-4) [listnook game 5: upvote!](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-5) [listnook game 6: data grab](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-6) [listnook game 7: Listnook Snake](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-7) [listnook game 8: tetris](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-8) [listnook game 9: Frustration (this is torture!)](http://listnookmedia.com/ads/listnook-fun-9)

I've never seen number 9 before. ...and I hope I'll never see it again. That shit lives up to its name.

2. Super Fill-up [awesome game] 3. Block puzzle game [kinda lame] 4. Listnook Pong [no one wants to see that look when they lose a ball] 5. Upvote [not too shabby but no replay value, none at all] 6. Data Grab [getouttahere] 7. Listnook Snake [MEH] 8. Listnook Tetris [disgusting knock-off where you have no real control. If you had fun playing this game you need to take a long hard look at yourself, then apologise to your friends and family] 9. Frustration [zen] 10. Rat Maze [makes you hungry - I avoided the white stuff thinking it was rat poison, but then I thought it could be parmesan]

I've had adblock on for months on this site. Today I turned it off!

*cough* [hover for spoilers](/ "The title letters themselves are cheese") *cough*

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If the next thing you do is tell me that the girls on /r/gonewild are fake; and were created by the admins to distract us proles, I'll stab you in the face.

>Convince me that I made the right decision! http://www.listnook.com/r/gonewild (NSFW)

Sincere questions. Why were you on Digg for 3 years knowing the power user dynamic? How could you stay on the site knowing that 99.99% of the top stories were submitted by power users, who were most probably getting paid to submit that stuff?

Welcome! Having that adBlock exception is a great thing to do as well, it's easy and the ads here are unobtrusive and sometimes relevant...

We hire admins to run news aggregator wars?

Champagne was *had by all in the Listnook offices last last night. A feeling of serendipity consumed the room, as someone else's fault was their gain. No servers went down. The site remained zippy. It was as if they were watching their child take its first step. A big step into the great unknown.

what do you mean subtly? "To put it another way, completely taking over Digg's front page for an entire day generates about 250,000 visits, or a little under one-seventh of our traffic yesterday." that seems like a victory statement.

*pulls out party whistle* FWEEEEEEEEEE!

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Why isn't it possible for the contract to state that any adjudication will be under US jurisdiction? Surely if the servers are in the US, Listnook is in the US, and the buyer agrees in a plainly worded contract...? I mean, in any transnational transaction, isn't the country which has jurisdiction decided in advance?

Oh, I'm Canadian, would it help things out if I sue Listnook in Canadian court anyway?

This week's DiggNation should be... interesting...

Technically, that's responding to your users.

...and baconpants was never heard from again....

>There's dozens of you!

Erm, I wonder if there is some way of making use of all this good feeling toward listnook by the digg influx, something similar to the gold charter member thing but with 'digg convert' as an option (for the life of the subscription)?

Yes, this, exactly. Once I did it I wondered why I hadn't earlier.

I left digg because of the new bullshit they pulled with the new update, but I had been getting tired of the users in the comments. It's tiring having people tell you all the time that women belong in the kitchen or to make them a sammich. Yes, it may have been sorta (not really) funny the first time, but after number 1000+ it is freaking annoying and degrading.

I left because I was explaining that I had worked at yahoo writing code that loaded all their clicks and page views into the largest-at-that-time sql-searchable database in the world (it was 10 petabytes when I left) and explained that yes, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies can subpoena data from it and they can get all kinds of information about you actions based on IP and login and history. I then said that (at the time of the posting) I was working at MS as a test automation architect and I happened to be working in the same group that developed the actual internal software used for processing these requests (mostly for child p*** but probably for terrorist stuff too). I was panned by people saying "you're full of shit, you know nothing, it can't be true, too coincidental, blah blah blah". I was there offering useful information and instead of questions or silence I got mockery and stupidity. That was what did it for me. The stupidest part was people thinking it was too coincidental. I guess 16 year-old kids don't understand that your job history builds your career future.

Hey have you seen the new expanded metropolis, came out a few months back? Shit makes *sense* now.

Digg expat here. When I first came I was turned off by the look but figured I would give it an honest shake. I am leaning towards the simplicity after using the site for day. About the only thing I would suggest is a tiny bit more space below the links of each message. For the record I liked the new look of digg but absolutely despised/hated/etc the garbage content that was being spammed from the same few sites. What really impresses me is the quality of the discourse. That new user guide was also really helpful. Thank-you to those who worked on it.

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http://i.imgur.com/PGe3E.png

Better than the 1d4 method - those damned things HURT if you step on them.

There goes that average site time of 11 minutes...

Delicious, delicious pie ...