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Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16112283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16112283

jwilk 9y ago
There were no comments, so there's no point linking to it.
dang 9y ago
No, agnivade's post was earlier, as you can see from its ID as well as from https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress..... We put it in the second-chance queue, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there. When we see a good article that fell through the cracks and put it in the second-chance queue, we try to pick the first submission of the article. When we do this, the submission timestamp on the front page becomes the time it was put in the queue, approximately. That's why it looked like a later post than yours. I don't like doing this, but not doing it invariably triggers a barrage of questions and complaints ("what is this 2-day old story with 3 upvotes doing on the front page"). You can always see the original timestamp by looking at the submission in the user history (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=agnivade https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=agnivade) or the site history (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress....). More here if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20timestamp%20front https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- DiabloD3 9y ago
  Huh. That's fine, but it should have caught my submission as a duplicate of his then, or at least, tell me someone else has.
  - dang 9y ago
    That's not so easy, because in cases where we don't notice the story and re-up it, reposts are key to giving good articles multiple chances at attention.

There were no comments, so there's no point linking to it.

dang 9y ago

No, agnivade's post was earlier, as you can see from its ID as well as from https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress..... We put it in the second-chance queue, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there. When we see a good article that fell through the cracks and put it in the second-chance queue, we try to pick the first submission of the article. When we do this, the submission timestamp on the front page becomes the time it was put in the queue, approximately. That's why it looked like a later post than yours. I don't like doing this, but not doing it invariably triggers a barrage of questions and complaints ("what is this 2-day old story with 3 upvotes doing on the front page"). You can always see the original timestamp by looking at the submission in the user history (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=agnivade https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=agnivade) or the site history (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mozillagfx.wordpress....). More here if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20timestamp%20front https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

DiabloD3 9y ago
Huh. That's fine, but it should have caught my submission as a duplicate of his then, or at least, tell me someone else has.
- dang 9y ago
  That's not so easy, because in cases where we don't notice the story and re-up it, reposts are key to giving good articles multiple chances at attention.