“Most Online Today: 1663. Most Online Ever: 1663 (Today at 03:14:25 AM)”
What is happened? Maybe some sort of astral conjunction? We have entered a new Era of Worldwide Knotting?
WOW!
Hi Luca,
I’ve only looked at the first 8 pages of guests (30 names per page), when there were 717 (by now there’s 699). The vast majority are looking at Dfred’s NASA post and the subsequent discussions. A few are looking at other topics. I don’t know how word got out, but it certainly has to be a Forum record: it’s currently over 43,000 views!
Congratulations to all participants 
Regards
Glenys
Hi Glenys,
Thanks, I could not understand how it could be, and I had not noticed all those views on the thread by dfred, and the resonance it has had in the media.
For the the rest I imagine a some sort of “NASA(l)” conjunction, i.e. a new era in which a number of engineers and various technicians of NASA read this thread to learn new ideas to combine input communication s edge technology with the dear old knots!
Bye!
Its gone viral 
It sure did! I started getting bandwidth warning texts from my server while attending a Labor Day picnic on Monday. It didn’t take too long to determine the cause of the traffic.
Not sure exactly how it started, but it looks like it was posted on both reddit and Hacker News late-Sunday/early-Monday. Apparently it took several hours for these items to get popular enough to start producing significant traffic, but by late-afternoon Monday (EDT) they were. Unfortunately my server logs mostly only contain referrers from igkt.net where the images are linked, but the Guild’s server logs would no doubt contain much more detailed information as to what sites were driving the traffic. As noted elsewhere, it was also picked-up by a few media outlets during the day yesterday.
Thanks, Glenys. I’m glad the Guild and knots in general are getting so much exposure. It’s interesting to read people’s reactions to finding out about the Guild’s existence, and that there is actually an internet forum dedicated to discussing knots. (There’s a forum for everything!). I was also approached last week by a representative of the Planetary Society to rework the write-up into a more standalone form for posting on their “Planetary Blog”. That should be happening soon, if all goes well.
articles
The previously mentioned The Planetary Society
Popular Science
Life’s Little Mysteries article got syndicated and republished on space.com and yahoo among others
some discussion/links
Reddit Space
Metafilter
Bushcraft USA
Bayliner Owners Club
search to find more links
Google
DFRED your famous:) How do I get my autographed copy… In one of the articles someone called us knot nerds. lol
Thanks for posting all the links! I hadn’t seen some of those.
[I’ve removed my request for bandwidth assistance. It turns out Amazon S3 is an effective and inexpensive way to do this…]
Actually, if you would like to archive them under a special section in “Knots Around The World” in the Gallery, all you need do is email them to me
Regards
Glenys
They’re still trickling in:
Space Safety Magazine