Metafilter has amassed the extra-ordinary total of 3804 total subscribers at Bloglines

November 16, 2004 2:30 PM

Just wanted to let you know that Metafilter has amassed the extra-ordinary total of 3804 total subscribers at Bloglines, which makes me wonder how many people are reading via other RSS readers and what the total readership of the site is on a daily basis. Scary.
posted by feelinglistless to MetaFilter-Related at 2:30 PM (25 comments total)

I'm happy for Matt, it sounds cool. but allow a serious, unironic, nonsnarky question from a clueless, unwashed MeFi user like me: what's a subscription to Bloglines?
posted by matteo at 2:52 PM on November 16, 2004

I was wondering that, myself.
posted by The God Complex at 3:03 PM on November 16, 2004

Bloglines is an RSS reader that is web-based, and exploits some network effects (like it can suggest other feeds you might like, and can show you who reads your feed).
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:45 PM on November 16, 2004

Why is this scary? The site itself gets a fair amount of traffic, if you're worried about how many people see your musings on life in the UK.
posted by haqspan at 3:58 PM on November 16, 2004

Naw, I think he meant scary like "this is wicked crazy scary cool" because personally, I haven't seen subscriber numbers beyond 2k on my feeds.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:38 PM on November 16, 2004

Bloglines is superb.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:41 PM on November 16, 2004

Thanks for the expo, Matt. I find Bloglines indispensible and thought that it was fairly commonly known based on the number of people who'd signed up.

That's exactly what I meant. Scary as in the pull on the servers and audience size for whatever's posted up here. To use a comparison, I'm impressed that I have about twelve people reading the feeds for my weblog on there.
posted by feelinglistless at 4:41 PM on November 16, 2004

How many of those subscribers are us though? I'm one of the 3000+ and I only know about bloglines because a bunch of users mentioned it here.
posted by yerfatma at 4:41 PM on November 16, 2004

Scary as in the pull on the servers

When you consider that bloglines is one user, not so much.
posted by yerfatma at 4:42 PM on November 16, 2004

not so much

But what about multiple click throughs? I use the feed to open up multiple tabs in Firefox for different threads I'm reading at the same time. I'm multiply that by 3000 -- because unlike a lot of blogs, a lot of content -- (ie) the discussion doesn't appear in the feed.
posted by feelinglistless at 4:55 PM on November 16, 2004

extra-orindary is a word I don't get. it seems like it would be used to describe something that is even less noteworthy than a plain ordinary thing. like the only the only thing that would particularly stand out about something that's extra-ordinary is how utterly non-descript and uninteresting it is. am I alone here?
posted by mcsweetie at 5:55 PM on November 16, 2004

"extra" can also mean "outside of" as in extracurricular or extramarital. So extraordinary then means "out of the ordinary."
posted by jonmc at 6:03 PM on November 16, 2004

As a prefix, extra doesn't mean "more than usual." It means "outside or beyond," making an extraordinary event something beyond the ordinary. Think extracurricular activities or extramarital relations.
posted by Hypharse at 6:04 PM on November 16, 2004

Doh.
posted by Hypharse at 6:04 PM on November 16, 2004

You must have used your extra-sensory perception to read my mind, hypharse.
posted by jonmc at 6:12 PM on November 16, 2004

The real question is, how many unique users per day does Mefi get?
posted by abcde at 9:31 PM on November 16, 2004

I'm responsible for at least three of those (I kept loosing my bloglines password and getting new accounts).
posted by dabitch at 9:35 PM on November 16, 2004

yeah, well. whatever!
posted by mcsweetie at 11:12 PM on November 16, 2004

Boing Boing currently has 12,343 subscribers. Just sayin'.
posted by Ufez Jones at 7:42 AM on November 17, 2004

Surprisingly, there are only 324 subscribers to MetaFilter on LiveJournal. BoingBoing has 554.

LJ's most popular feed is Foxtrot, the cartoon, with 9607 viewers, followed by Neil Gaiman's weblog, with 8463.
posted by insomnia_lj at 8:24 AM on November 17, 2004

Wow, I just signed up at Bloglines and it's great. Is there a MetaTalk feed?
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 12:07 PM on November 17, 2004

Is there a MetaTalk feed?

No, and with good reason.
posted by gleuschk at 12:23 PM on November 17, 2004

well jeeze louise
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 12:37 PM on November 17, 2004

Sorry to be snippy. Another one of those asked-and-answered questions that's been raised on MetaTalk a dozen times.

Or, in other words,

.
posted by gleuschk at 2:22 PM on November 17, 2004

what's that "." mean?


i kid, i kid.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 2:26 PM on November 17, 2004