September 27th, 2007 admin
Before stumbling your story make sure that you choose a popular category
I have clicked my stumble button 100 successive times in one session, and I have noticed that about 95% of the pages SU returns were added in categories of my interests. So if you want to write a Stumble worthy story make sure that it falls under a category with enough audiences or if you have a story that fits tow categories, make sure that you go for the more popular one.
How to know the most popular categories ? SU makes it easy for you through the tag cloud on the home page, simply the bigger is more popular.
You may ask yourself are not the popular categories getting more new stories and eventually my chance will be the same if I submit to a low popularity category will less new stories, theoretically that looks right but practically and after many experiments I find out that submitting to the popular categories is far better that low popularity ones. If you try this and find more to add on to this post please feel free to do
Best regards
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September 23rd, 2007 admin
In a previous post I had provided a list of the most popular stumblers in terms of number of fans. Today I am providing the same list in a sort of auto updated interactive widget, what is the difference between the widget and the old static list?
add a popular stumbler
- Anybody can propose a stumbler name to be listed in the widget using the add a popular stumbler link (stumblers with less than 1000 fans will not be included in the database)
- The widget gets updated two times a day through cronjob, so the numbers are always fresh.
- You can include this widget in your blog, Facebook, Myspace and more, Just hover the widget and you will see a button says copy me, click it for inclusion options.I would link to thank yourminis for the nice widget, I think this is the best to view your RSS feed.
Enjoy
thewis.stumbleupon.com
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September 22nd, 2007 admin
I have noticed by chance that word “Fan” follows the number of fans for some stumblers, but for other stumblers the word “Fans” follows the number of fans. My be this is not a big deal and it does not even worth a blog post but curiosity kills the cat!
Ok after some investigations I think I know what is the problem .. it is most likely a bug in SU was caused by wrong comparison in PHP.
I think what happened is that the programmers in SU are using some thing like this to append the word “Fan” or “Fans”
<?
if ($fans > 1) {
print “fans” ;
else {
print “fan” ;
}
But the issue is that the programmers left the variable $fans without stripping the coma “,” so the comparison will be done on the number to the left of the coma “,” the numbers to the right will be ignored in this case .. so in this case stumblers with 2-999 fans and +2,000 fans are ok your will see “fans” follows their fans number .. But stumblers with 1,000-1,999 fans will see “fan” follows their fans number.
FANS
FAN
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