[GioM]

I remember that the "Slashdot Effect" used to be a thing, getting featured on Slashdot generated enough traffic that it routinely took sites down.

Then digg came along, and I started using that, but kept Slashdot on the backburner. One day I remember listening to a diggnation podcast, one of the live ones with Kevin and Alex in front of a live audience at (probably) some bar somewhere, and Kevin made a remark about "Slashdot effect.... it's the Digg effect now!" and the crowd roared.

And he was right. It had been a fair while since Slashdot had managed to take anything down.

I felt a little sad, for a moment, because I knew what it meant.