One side effect of your post (for me) is now I am following your RSS feed. So there might also be a long term effect of having more people follow your blog.
The cross section of Proggit and Hackernews has overlap. If more people are reading Proggit first, then Hnews then they probably won't click through again. So maybe more people read Proggit before Hnews?
Also, what happens when you normalize the traffic by the size of the Hnews and Proggit "populations"?
One side effect of your post (for me) is now I am following your RSS feed. So there might also be a long term effect of having more people follow your blog.
The cross section of Proggit and Hackernews has overlap. If more people are reading Proggit first, then Hnews then they probably won't click through again. So maybe more people read Proggit before Hnews?
Also, what happens when you normalize the traffic by the size of the Hnews and Proggit "populations"?