Citizendium Blog

We were Slashdotted two days ago.  A lot of the discussion is interesting, but as usual, too much of it is also full of various simpleminded errors.

As expected, the Slashdotting pumped a new crop of recruits into the project.  We’re up to 538 authors (i.e., people who have placed “Category:CZ Author” on their own user pages).  I’ve noticed that some of the new folks (since self-registration began) are well qualified to be editors, but we haven’t brought them on board in that capacity yet; so the number of editors listed is 167.

We’ve had our most active days since self-registration began, and even more since the Slashdotting.  We’re pretty consistently well over 500 lines on Recent Changes per day.

We handled the load pretty well, too.  Of course, matters would be different if all those Slashdot people who weren’t logged in were hitting the database all at once–then I suspect we wouldn’t have been able to handle it with our current equipment configuration.  But, given how well we’ve withstood the onslaught (thanks especially to server fine-tuning by Jason Potkanski and Greg Sabino Mullane), perhaps we won’t need quite as many servers as we originally thought.  If so, then a public launch is moving within reach, because we can get our hands on several more servers.  Just not 16 more, without some major funding.  On the major funding front, we still have many active leads, but the avenues of “major funding” are necessarily slow-moving.

I’m also happy to report that the vast majority of our new recruits are troopers and are fitting in quite well!  So, welcome, Slashdot!