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The Plus Side of HN's Now Large Userbase (or, Thanks HN)
I posted a blog entry of mine yesterday. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1295462) I had exhausted my research options so the post was me asking for help.
Less than twenty-four hours after submitting it to HN -- on a post that got no up-votes or comments -- I had several people contact me with suggestions, tangential ideas, and even a PDF copy of a presentation made three days ago that talked about EXACTLY what I was mentioning.
HN might have more noise these days, but the signal is still strong.
Thanks, HN.
- vijaydev 16y agoClickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1295462 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1295462
- lincolnq 16y agoI never saw the original post, but I am interested in the question you posed. Can you summarize the results?
- chasingsparks 16y agoHow a Healthcare Company Can Accelerate Translation of Scientific Knowledge to Practice, http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Epstein.pdf http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Epstein.pdf This is (most) of what I had suggested.
- Jun8 16y agoOn that note, how many users does HN have? Is there a page where I can get statistics on how active the users are?
- pinksoda 16y agoI thought this was a pretty good post but it didn't get any attention. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299094 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299094 I think HN is too big now.
- Mark_B 16y agoI don't know if really is size causing something to get lost. My guess would be that people really don't bother looking at anything beyond the front page.
- csomar 16y agoThey do look, a no-upvoted stories get me around 30-40 uniques.
- oldgregg 16y agoBro. You opened your account a month ago and your submissions are all self-promotional. Maybe your post didn't get a lot of votes-- but it did get a lot of comments-- most of them suggesting your claims are not credible. Perhaps all of the self-promoting cross-posters are what makes HN feel too big?