"Page views are a pretty bad metric about quality of conversation." Quite true. The goal of my Smalltalk campaign has always been about marketing or "branding." The goal has been to get /as many people as possible/ thinking and talking about Smalltalk. It's not so much about the quality of conversation as actually having a conversation at all. I explain here <https://medium.com/@richardeng/domo-arigato-mr-smalltalk-aa84e245beb9> . "...and instead of trying to convince them otherwise by talking I prefer to build and demo my Grafoscopio project in our hackerspace..." Indeed, and on Twitter I've tried to demonstrate Smalltalk/Pharo's usefulness by referencing various stories, open source contributions, and achievements (via #MakeSmalltalkGreatAgain). To get people to even look at my Twitter feed, though, I have to make a splash in social media. I think I've done that, but it took a heck of a lot of effort. More than two years' worth. Hundreds of articles and posts on Medium, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Reddit, Quora. Frankly, I'm exhausted. "Ps: I didn't find a lot of comments in the original article on TechBeacon or Slashdot." I need to inform you guys about something. A few weeks ago, TechBeacon switched from using the Livefyre commenting system to Disqus. In the process, ALL previous article comments were lost. TechBeacon says they'll try to restore those comments, but I don't see how they can do it. These commenting systems work by using a network of users who post the comments. Are they going to transfer existing Livefyre users to Disqus??? My TechBeacon article had a lot of good and *useful* comments. Their loss is most unfortunate. The voluminous Slashdot comments can be found at the bottom of the page: Slashdot story <https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/12/31/0413250/can-learning-smalltal...> . -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Slashdot-Submission-tp4928235p4928514.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.