The Numa Numa surge was interesting because Numa Numa had OVER 600,000 views on the day of the surge (and 70k the day after) but it didn't ripple across the rest of the site the way it would have in the old days. It was cool to see people popping up in the "Welcome People of Reddit" forum post though.
Traffic returned right back to normal after all that but it was energizing. Our forum updates have been helping, too; more and more people are making use of the @ before usernames and I'm hoping that will keep growing. People don't realize they can pretty much summon their favorite artists and quite possibly get a response. It's like Twitter where you know you're publicly getting called on, whereas in the old days, users could talk about artists and the artist would never know because they didn't have a feed.
TomFulp
Need a like button for blog posts, I read this earlier and enjoyed it but didn't reply so now I'm replying so you know it's been read!
Cool to hear about all the stuff you've been learning and that's a nice booth! Did you go to the convention?
FrozenFire
I was not at the convention mainly because I couldn't talk about the products like the salesmen could.
but Tom, gearing the site closer to social media is a step in the right direction. I enjoy the interaction feature and I would use a like button quite frequently. I still get on NG every day pretty much.. just to read your news posts and watch some shorts.
Just refreshed my Supporter badge for 2015 too.
How much traffic did the NUMA NUMA surge get NG? I've noticed things picking up lately.