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I'd love to know what the magic recipe that GitLab uses to be so prominently in-your-face at all times on HN.
by jasim 10y ago
I'd love to know what the magic recipe that GitLab uses to be so prominently in-your-face at all times on HN.
- Perihelion 10y agoWe've actually been trying to back off of HN, but the community posts just about anything that appears on our blog.
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- amlozano 10y agoBecause despite all the hate, GitLab is still pretty awesome to have.
- kneath 10y agohttps://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/04/gitlab-is-part-of-the-y-combinator-family/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/04/gitlab-is-part-of-the-y-...
- dang 10y agoIf you're implying that we did something to boost this post because Gitlab is a YC startup, we didn't. Matter of fact we penalized it as unsubstantive. There's a standard moderation penalty for submissions whose only content is rallying users to some cause or event, since (however good the cause) that isn't intellectually interesting.
- sytse 10y agoThanks for giving it a penalty, I agree it isn't intellectually interesting and it doesn't belong on the HN frontpage.
- jasim 10y agoRegret posting this. Sorry!
- sytse 10y agoNo problem, I agree with the sentiment expressed.
- minimaxir 10y agoOther replies are implying vote rigging/bias. IMO, that's not the case in this instance, there are other terms which reliably get a lot of upvotes just because they are in the headline. (namely, Rust and Machine Learning)
- Latty 10y agoIt feels pretty obvious to me - it's a well managed, useful product that offers a hosted version for free for any use, and it's truly universal - there aren't many developers who don't want source code control. There is also the 'FOSS version of a popular proprietary thing' angle and the openness of the project that means there is more news about it to post. In general, it feels pretty natural to me it would get posted about a lot, and upvoted a lot.
- sytse 10y agoThanks, but I agree with the sentiment that it we're a lot of HN these days, I can see people getting tired of it. Frankly, I didn't expect the issue bash to get upvoted. We have our postmortem coming in a few minutes. I'm sure that will be much discussed here. We considered postponing that post but we promised it for this week and feel like we owe it to our users. I've instructed all our people not to submit articles to HN but we can't prevent others from posting.
- ergo14 10y agoThey are YC company.
- shimon_e 10y agoI'm waiting for them to release a backup runner that tests your backups.