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I think it should identify posts by ID rather than by post title - it seems that reposts and dupes confuse it (for example, the current top post was posted a to
by nneonneo 7y ago
I think it should identify posts by ID rather than by post title - it seems that reposts and dupes confuse it (for example, the current top post was posted a total of three times per HN search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=The%20polygons%20of%20another%20world&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., which causes the apparent history in this tool to bounce around a lot: https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/The%20Polygons%20of%20Another%20World https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/The%20P...)
- christian_fei 7y agoi agree, it initially was like that, then i thought the experience would be better by using the title to identify a post.
- uoaei 7y agoInternally, represent the articles as IDs. This will eliminate duplicate posts, though not necessarily duplicate articles linked in posts. You can periodically fetch and cache the title pretty easily, since the ID is most of the (interesting characters in the) URL for the page.