Hey Redditors (and Others)! Welcome!
This blog is seeing its visitor numbers jump hugely today, via both Reddit and Hemant Mehta’s site (The Friendly Atheist, hosted at Patheos.com). We’re thrilled! If you like our content, please...
View ArticleIt Was a Good Day
Wow. Almost 2,000 page views in the past 24 hours. Not bad at all, considering we’ve only been at it for a few weeks. Thanks to everyone who dropped by, and a double thanks to those of you who dropped...
View ArticleNew Visitor Record Yesterday: Thank You!
We’re really happy that our page views and unique-visitor numbers keep rising; in fact, yesterday, we more than tripled our previous peak number of ten days ago. I know there’s something unseemly about...
View ArticleNew Visitor Record, and Another Sincere Thanks
Amazing. Just five days ago, we peaked at more than 6,000 page views in 24 hours, and we were thrilled. Yesterday, we very nearly doubled that. Or rather, you did. Total page views on Sunday: 12,200....
View ArticleOne Hundred Ten Thousand Views…In One Day!
Two weeks ago, our page views shot up to 6,000 in a day, and we were excited. Five days later, the number doubled to more than 12,000, and we were getting giddy. And now we’re elated, because yesterday...
View ArticleA Milestone and an Apology
The great news: In the 24-hour period between 4 p.m. yesterday and today, Moral Compass had roughly 126,000 page views — a new one-day record! The so-so news: Despite the site having moved to a new,...
View ArticleYesterday’s Reddit Shitstorm: A Post-Mortem
Moral Compass unwittingly caused a mob fight of quasi-Biblical proportions on Reddit yesterday. It happened when a Reddit user named Unbliever posted a link to this Moral Compass riff on Tim Lambesis...
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