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I think "time on the front page" would be a better measure of popularity. Even better, "total site-wide HN comments made while the article was on the front pag
by devit 11y ago
I think "time on the front page" would be a better measure of popularity.
Even better, "total site-wide HN comments made while the article was on the front page" as a proxy for the number of users being online and thus having seen it.
- minimaxir 11y agoUnfortunately that's a) impossible to see in historical data unless you had a huge number of snapshots and b) the algorithm changed very recently so that wouldn't help.