Participants List Part Two
2009-03-24 23:11:25
It seems that the new thumbnailed participants page and the addition of thumbnails to the participants feed has been rather popular. People like it, we like it - luckily, nobody has complained yet. As long as our bandwidth costs don't get out of control we'll keep it going.
We've already made it known that we want to keep the list as a slow stream of user sites and give every site an opportunity to get a couple days worth of referral traffic, but we are currently running a backlog of additions to the list - a couple months right now. We're sorry for the delay (those of you who keep emailing us).
We may need to increase the daily number of sites for awhile so we can catch up. It's not the ideal solution but people shouldn't have to wait two months for their site to appear either. So, occasionally you may see more than the usual number of sites.
For those who aren't aware of the 'policy', we update the list three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Finally, a word to everybody asking to be added to the participants queue - spend a little time making something special for the frontpage of your site. We've already noticed how a compelling image or graphic can significantly increase the amount of referrals your site may receive. We've done some checking on the amount of referrals we've been generating for people and it's pretty nice.
It's also a good idea to be a bit more diligent about testing your site in the various browsers - Indexhibit does work very well in Internet Explorer if you take the time to resolve the issues. We offer help in our forum and there are tons of threads on the most common issues already.