What Were Slashdot's Most Popular Stories of 2021? (slashdot.org) 16
Another 12 months gone by, and with it nearly 8,000 new Slashdot headlines — so which ones drew the most views?
Click here for lists of Slashdot's top 10 most-visited and most-commented stories of the year — and also the all-time top 10 lists since Slashdot's creation in 1997.
Here's some of 2021's highlights:
Click here for lists of Slashdot's top 10 most-visited and most-commented stories of the year — and also the all-time top 10 lists since Slashdot's creation in 1997.
Here's some of 2021's highlights:
- Two of this year's most-visited stories involved Linus Torvalds. (Although one just reported Torvalds "Tells Anti-Vaxxer To Shut Up On Linux Mailing List.") Another story in April found Torvalds saying Rust was at least closer to use in Linux kernel development — while also calling C++ "a crap language."
- One of the biggest stories of the year was Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation. The third most-visited story of the year covered the pushback against his return from the EFF, the Tor Project, Mozilla, and the creator of Rust.
- Remember that big electrical outage that left millions of Texans without power in the middle of a winter storm? As the crisis was still raging, CNN asked the million-dollar question: who's actually to blame? This became Slashdot's 9th most-visited story of the year — and also the 7th most-commented.
- Two of the 10 most-visited stories of the year were "Ask Slashdot" technical questions: In April RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) asked whether a software RAID is better than a hardware RAID? And in January of 2020 Slashdot reader lsllll asked for suggestions on a a battery-powered wi-fi security camera supporting FTP/SMB
Interestingly, one of the year's most-commented poll topics had asked whether bitcoin would break $100,000 before the end of 2021. 4,951 voters — a full 25% — had said "Yes" — and were off by more than half, with bitcoin actually tumbling 8% in the last week of 2021 to wind up somewhere near $46,371 as of late Friday afternoon.
At the time of the poll — October 8th — the price of Bitcoin was already up to $53,963. One month later it had reached it's highest price of 2021 — $67,582 — before dropping 31.7% over the next 53 days.
In the October poll asking whether bitcoin would reach $100,000 in the final 84 days of 2021 — another 14,687 Slashdot readers voted "No."
"Most Popular" - "Most falsehoods corrected" (Score:2)
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And, for symmetry... (Score:2)
What were the *least* popular stories?
Headline count (Score:3)
Still interesting to see what was popular.
Least popular and least discussed? (Score:2)
Least popular and least discussed?
Don't look at the first comments on this story.
(Two trivial reactions: (1) Does anyone care what motivates AC? (2) If I do offend a troll, then I must be doing something right.)
So Late! (Score:2)
Don't media outlets normally release the "stories of xxxx" a week before the year actually ends?
Alll languages suck (Score:1)
All languages are crap - except the one I am currently using, which is barely tolerable - and all code sucks except my own only as long as it was written less than 6 months ago.