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HN is a hit or miss. If you don't get upvoted quickly, you'll get missed. Several weeks ago, 3 of 4 stories that i submitted within two days were completely p
by melling 10y ago
HN is a hit or miss.
If you don't get upvoted quickly, you'll get missed. Several weeks ago, 3 of 4 stories that i submitted within two days were completely passed over, only to be resubmitted by other people, which ended up on the front page. One story was even #1 for several hours.
- johansch 10y agoI have noticed this. I have also noticed that reddit is a lot better in this regard - good stories tend to get picked up - e.g. in subreddits that have a comparable new post volume. Here it often seems quite random what does get picked up.
- cookiecaper 10y agoYes, on HN and reddit properly timing submissions is critical to visibility.