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What is the best time & day to "Ask HN" something
- pierrefar 16y agoWhich timezone are these days and times based on?
- nollidge 16y agoI'm guessing UTC? The original dataset they link to[1] is in UTC. [1] http://www.mattmazur.com/2010/03/six-months-of-hackernews-front-page-data/ http://www.mattmazur.com/2010/03/six-months-of-hackernews-fr...
- luxative 16y agoYes, UTC it is. I should have mentioned it in the post (editing now)
- jim_h 16y agoHow many 'Ask HN' submissions were there by day? It only saw percentage by day. The comments submissions are displayed by 'average' while the 'Ask HN' submissions are by 'percentage'.
- luxative 16y agoSimply multiply the % numbers by 853 (total sample size)
- fragmede 16y agoIn case anyone else wants to disable that awful wibiya toolbar, point cdn.wibiya.com at 127.0.0.1.
- jscore 16y agoSounds like you just indirectly Asked HN.
- delano 16y agoI was hoping to the see the average points for Ask HN posts based on date and time.
- luxative 16y agoSorry, skipped the points (don't even know why I did that); will try and update later.
- acangiano 16y agoWhile not specific to ASK HN submissions, in my experience it's almost useless to submit in the evening (EST). I have submitted several interesting stories that were ignored due to the time of their submission. Two examples: IBM and the Jeopardy Challenge: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1566395 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1566395 The Day Einstein Died: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492997 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492997
- what 16y agoRelated, the best day/time to submit an article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175223 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175223 It's from a while ago, so things may have changed.
- luxative 16y agoI've referenced that article in my post - and used the same dataset as they have. The (other) article is about all posts. I've focused exclusively on Ask HN - where the post's objective is not to educate/entertain/inform but to solicit feedback. The hypothesis is that an Ask HN post demats a higher level of involvement from the reader and hence may exhibit different trends.