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Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2016 (slashdot.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday December 31, 2016 @05:40PM from the happy-New-Year dept.

Slashdot's most-visited story of the year was "Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above," which was visited more than 330,910 times since we published it August 16. And our second and third most popular stories came in the spring -- Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone and Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button. Click through for a complete list of Slashdot's 10 most-visited stories of 2016.
Here's a quick reminder for 2017. You can always find a list of Slashdot's ten most-visited stories for the preceding year in the Slashdot "Hall of Fame." It will also tell you which stories got the most comments during the preceding year, and also reveals the most active submitters and most active poll topics.

Here's our 10 most-visited stories for 2016.

Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above
Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone
Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button
Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions?
Confirmed: In an Unprecedented Move, Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7
World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History
The Case Against a Universal Basic Income
Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10?
FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton
The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall

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Story #11 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 17:42 · Score: 0

Does the Tin Man have a sheet metal cock?
1. Re:Story #11 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 17:50 · Score: 0
  
  Where's the link? I really want to know.
2. Re:Story #11 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 18:14 · Score: 0
  
  Yes. Yes he does.
3. Re: Story #11 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 18:19 · Score: 0
  
  What about a Star Track story?
  Sand n1gger chimp stories beat Star Track stories.
4. Re:Story #11 by hambone142 · 2016-12-31 18:31 · Score: 1
  
  What?!
  We can't throw Trump, the Russians, the DNC or Hillary in to the fray ?
5. Re: Story #11 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 18:55 · Score: 0
  
  but do Star Track stories trump Trump stories?
6. Re: Story #11 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 19:08 · Score: 0
  
  A developing story right now - cops block out streets with riot equipment to keep public at firework safe from surrounding crowds and mobs. Obama was spotted monkeying around with a red flag and a Putin banner.
7. Re: Story #11 by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 02:34 · Score: 0
  
  Ok the misspelling of Star Trek is not funny enough to be a signature troll joke . You are not going to do this all year are you?
Breaking news: Trump beats Obama at golf by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 18:10 · Score: 0

Where to submit?
Not the real top ten by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 18:12 · Score: 0

There's no fucking way that "The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall", with its 167 comments, was a top ten story. Same with "Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions?"
I wonder what stories they omitted to include these. My guess is stories about foreigners taking jobs, which are incredibly popular on Slashdot, but would look bad on a Top 10 list.
1. Re:Not the real top ten by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 18:54 · Score: 0
  
  Especially "Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above", pretty much no one went to that article.
  Slashdot is run by morons.
2. Re:Not the real top ten by AmiMoJo · 2016-12-31 23:13 · Score: 1
  
  They are ranked by the number of hits on the page, not the number of comments. Those stories probably got linked to from other popular sites it highly ranked on Google.
  It's a shame they don't list the highest rated and most prolific commenters too.
  
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3. Re:Not the real top ten by SciFurz · 2017-01-01 02:31 · Score: 1
  
  The high number of hits could have been from the popcorn eating crowd expecting huge flamewars in the comments.
  
  Sometimes the comment section is much more interesting and entertaining than the article itself.
  ...
  Okay, maybe most of the time.
  
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Comment Totals by Kunedog · 2016-12-31 18:14 · Score: 5, Informative

Added post counts in case anyone else is interested:

Here's our 10 most-visited stories for 2016.

55 - Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above
364 - Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone
348 - Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button
190 - Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions?
179 - Confirmed: In an Unprecedented Move, Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7
1718 - World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History
1145 - The Case Against a Universal Basic Income
982 - Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10?
733 - FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton
167 - The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall
1. Re:Comment Totals by Carewolf · 2016-12-31 18:16 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Added post counts in case anyone else is interested:
  
  Here's our 10 most-visited stories for 2016.
  55 - Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above
  I think for most of us, silence said it all.
2. Re:Comment Totals by rossz · 2016-12-31 19:22 · Score: 2
  
  It would have been big news if we learned they weren't leaking credentials and huge number of posts discussing how that was possible.
  
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3. Re:Comment Totals by tsa · 2016-12-31 20:38 · Score: 1
  
  Exactly. We would have been surprised if the convenient leakimg feature hadn't been built in.
  
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4. Re:Comment Totals by AmiMoJo · 2016-12-31 23:01 · Score: 2
  
  It's depressing how familiar that list is. Microsoft bugs/hate, mass shootings in the US, Apple being dicks, global warming denial, some bastard made a minor charge to the UI...
  It could be 2005 again.
  
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5. Re: Comment Totals by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 03:30 · Score: 0
  
  From what I saw, large amounts of comment threads had nothing to do with the article but instead were just random off topic tangents. Par for the course being Slashdot?
  It seems this was the first year I had to scroll down through two pages from the top to get a decent comment. The comments feature has just gone to shit. I suspect Cowboy Neal.
And this is based on which data? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 19:58 · Score: 0

And this is based on which data? The web server logs or the Google analytics that I have blocked?
1. Re:And this is based on which data? by ls671 · 2017-01-01 00:37 · Score: 1
  
  It is obviously based on vaporware analytics.
  
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so Slashdot is spying on visitors by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 20:00 · Score: 0

Reading is not a free action. You will be tracked.
Thanks for being evil, SlashdotMedia.
Deja Vu. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 20:27 · Score: 1

Does "most visited" include the dupes?
Just goes to show how generic Slashdot is by ET3D · 2016-12-31 20:45 · Score: 2

No longer news for nerds, it's just mainly a generic site where political and "OMG big corporations are fucking us" posts are the highlights.
1. Re:Just goes to show how generic Slashdot is by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-31 21:28 · Score: 0
  
  Nerdy things have gone mainstream: science fiction and fantasy movies are blockbusters, comic book character cosplay is trendy, and every teen girl carries a linux box.
2. Re:Just goes to show how generic Slashdot is by zifn4b · 2017-01-01 01:00 · Score: 1
  
  No longer news for nerds, it's just mainly a generic site where political and "OMG big corporations are fucking us" posts are the highlights.
  I bet this post was made by a Russian hacker!
  
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No Trump story? by Lisandro · 2016-12-31 22:58 · Score: 1

Kinda surprised that one isn't in the list. It had close to 2800 comments.
Donald Trump Wins US Presidency
1. Re:No Trump story? by bongey · 2017-01-01 06:30 · Score: 1
  
  No BeauHD and EditorDavid are still in denial.
Less Politics Than Expected by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 00:42 · Score: 1

It's interesting to see that there aren't many political posts in the top ten. I was expecting Trump, Clinton, Brexit, Trump, Russian Hackers, Clinton, etc, but may of the posts are actually technology related. Maybe Slashdot should realise that its readers don't want another political news site and would rather they stick with science and technology.
Incidentally, the Related Links at the bottom contain:
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules
Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts
Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump?
Slashdot really likes to push the political news stories.
1. Re:Less Politics Than Expected by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 04:50 · Score: 0
  
  There *may* have been some curation when that top ten list was presented. Cough.
VoIP by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 01:26 · Score: 0

Any VoIP banners? The are sooo relevant....
Finally by dohzer · 2017-01-01 01:30 · Score: 1

Finally... a "the year that was" story that comes AFTER THE END OF THE YEAR IT IS DISCUSSING!
So sick of news stories being release before the end of the year.
1. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:16 · Score: 0
  
  Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Did they remember to wait for the extra second?
2. Re:Finally by dohzer · 2017-01-08 02:05 · Score: 1
  
  Love It.
iPhone lov Communist by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 06:41 · Score: 0

Hi!
iPhone doesn't provide Freedom. iPhone is a closed ecosystem like Communism.
All of U are with me. :)
Support your form of government: Want to be totally controlled, Want to be in poverty, Want Freedom?
Communist => iPhone, macBook, OSx. Apple can actaully put U in jail for hacking what U purchased fro Apple.
America => Proprietary laws says keep paying so that U live from pay check to payckeck.
Freedom => Open Source, laws protecting consumers, laws providing more monies to middle class = also people in poverty. Laws promoting new open source forms of business.
** Why open source, ha, ha, ha. So far, open source gave me and U more opportunity.