DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

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On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 22:00:42 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 17:10:16 UTC, Mengu wrote:
>> and also the genius idea to post each talk seperately instead 
>> of having a nice talks page on dconf.org and providing a link 
>> for that. i'd understand the keynotes but for the rest of the 
>> talks this is / was not a good idea.
>
> I think the hope was that it would attract more views overall. 
> I think what was not taken into account was the way Reddit post 
> get viewed, having their up votes spread out among the 
> different posts is much worse than pooling them as the reddit 
> posts are far less likely to be viewed with low up vote counts. 
> Also its annoying for us who just want to watch the talks.
>
> A much better strategy would have been a full release of all 
> the talks followed with a reddit post of all of them to get the 
> large burst up front, then after wards have individual posts 
> for each video to get the staggering as well. It would 
> effectively doubled each videos exposure(reddit is all reposts 
> any ways so its all the better :P).

According to Andrei's talk, it worked quite effectively last year 
based off the increased number of compiler downloads per month 
immediately following DConf. And I do think that it does work 
better as well, though have no evidence for that besides the 
number of downloads that Andrei said.