Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2017 (slashdot.org)

Slashdot's most-visited story of 2017 was Google Has Demonstrated a Successful Practical Attack Against SHA-1, which was visited more than 212,000 times since it was published in Feburary.

And our second- and third-most popular stories also came in February -- both just one week before.

FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone and IT Decisions Makers and Executives Don't Agree On Cyber Security Responsibility.

Keep reading for a complete list of Slashdot's 10 most-visited stories of 2017.
Here's a quick reminder for 2018. 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 most-visited stories for 2017.

• Google Has Demonstrated a Successful Practical Attack Against SHA-1

• FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone

• IT Decisions Makers and Executives Don't Agree On Cyber Security Responsibility

• Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President

• Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process

• Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!'

• Prominent Drupal, PHP Developer Kicked From the Drupal Project Over Unconventional Sex Life

• Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation

• Apple Paid $0 In Taxes To New Zealand, Despite Sales of $4.2 Billion

• Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products?

Comments

Dumb metric

[war4peace]

"Most visited" means shit. A crap older story might be visited more than a very interesting story from last month.
Focus on "most commented" instead, because comments are disabled after a while.

Re: Dumb metric

[alvinrod]

Most commented would be even worse. It really just means the most controversial and Iâ(TM)d guess most of them have more to do with politics than tech.

Use both

[cold fjord]

Different metrics measure things, and both are worth considering: most commented, and most visited.

Some other possible metrics of potential interest: most unique commenters, most heavily moderated, most linked to, ....