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Not sure if this is the reddit (et. al.) effect, but man that site is sllllloooowwwww for me.

• chancho 17y ago
  When complaining about "the effect" on a news aggregation site it's customary to refer to it by the name of said site. So here it is called "The HN effect." Nevermind the absurdity of this name, on account of HN's (thankfully) small community size. It's just polite. If you MUST refer to "the effect" by any other name, give credit to the historical originator: It's called "The Slashdot Effect." Not Digg, and certainly not reddit. (Actually I'm not sure Slashdot was the first, though I was aware of "slashdotting" as a verb more than 10 years ago. Anyone know of predating claim to "the effect" by another site?")
  • whughes 17y ago
    Before being condescending, you should check to see if there is a valid claim to the reddit effect: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/906yc/mythryl_programming_languge/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/906yc/mythryl_p... I'm not sure what your post added to the discussion, but his alerted other people that the problem wasn't on their side, and it also stated that there was a discussion on reddit.
  • MoeDrippins 17y ago
    My apologies; I figured the "et. al." would have covered that.