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Posted Oct 22, 2002 20:32 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Creating Linux virtual filesystems by smoogen
Parent article: Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Last week, when we were just short of 2000, we set a goal of 4000 as a relatively stable place to be somewhere not too far into next year at the latest. We up to almost 2100 now, so progress is happening...but the rate of new subscriptions is (not surprisingly) dropping off; it's probably going to take some serious work to get that doubling.

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Posted Oct 23, 2002 4:38 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Thanks for the info. I think that having the number on the front page would be a useful thing. This is a new way of doing things and so people might start understanding that they cant just wait for others to support you.

While not on the page it would be interesting to see how the country breakdown is with something like:

% of subscriptions % of visitors (derived from IP)
United States
European Union
Japan
Canada
Mexico

Now that is something to be nationalistic about :)

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Posted Oct 23, 2002 10:04 UTC (Wed) by veelo (guest, #4694) [Link]

Agreed!

> European Union
Make that Europe; it will take a couple of decades (or eternity) before all European countries have joined the Union... Maybe we should just stick to continents, I suspect LWN readers are spread over too many countries.

Bastiaan.