{"id":27290,"date":"2020-01-01T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T05:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27290"},"modified":"2020-01-01T19:44:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T05:44:15","slug":"top-posts-of-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27290","title":{"rendered":"Top Posts of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The top posts of 2019 are a little different than I have seen in the past. Usually it is a mix of a few big hit posts that were linked on other sites and a lot of older posts that have long lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An overhead view of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope, credit TMT Observatory Corporation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This year DarkerView’s traffic was dominated by the controversy on Mauna Kea. Publishing a series of posts on specific issues resulted in a lot of shares, mostly on FaceBook that drove traffic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TMT supporters would routinely link DarkerView to provide more information in the raging online arguments that drove so much of the controversy. I can only hope that the posts had some effect in countering the dizzying amount of misinformation that featured in these arguments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>A Compendium of Anti-TMT Myths<\/a><\/td>5,047<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Keep it Running<\/a><\/td>3,318<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Where can you fly a drone in Hawaii?<\/a><\/td>3,254<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>A Backyard Telescope Pier<\/a><\/td>1,763<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>The Mavic Air Panorama Modes<\/a><\/td>1,410<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Remove the abandoned telescopes?<\/a><\/td>1,328<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Will TMT use nuclear power?<\/a><\/td>1,204<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Jan 20th Total Lunar Eclipse<\/a><\/td>1,017<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Are there TMT jobs for locals?<\/a><\/td>1,003<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>Perfboard<\/a><\/td>704<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>The observatories pay no rent?<\/a><\/td>695<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>Restoring the Cave Astrola<\/a><\/td>680<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/td>The motivation for TMT is greed and profit?<\/a><\/td>667<\/td><\/tr>
14<\/td>Old School Drive Corrector<\/a><\/td>657<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>Will TMT be the biggest building on the island?<\/a><\/td>652<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Of course the Backyard Telescope Pier<\/a> article continues to be the most popular long term post. This post has been on every DarkerView top post list since I started the blog. A number of other similar reference posts can be found in the top post lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall DarkerView had 74,125 page views from 39,679 unique visitors, a large increase from the 46,707 views of 2018, almost double.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top posts of 2019 are a little different than I have seen in the past. Usually it is a mix of a few big hit posts that were linked on other sites and a lot of older posts that have long lives. This year DarkerView’s traffic was dominated by the controversy on Mauna Kea. … Continue reading “Top Posts of 2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[2711,26,2510],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TMTComplex.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27291,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290\/revisions\/27291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}