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A diff of past front pages would be interesting. Some historical front page entries: 2007AUG15 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/1119991071/ http://www.f
by bootload 16y ago
A diff of past front pages would be interesting. Some historical front page entries:
2007AUG15 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/1119991071/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/1119991071/
2008FEB08 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2250089864/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2250089864/
2009JAN18 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3205568708/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3205568708/
2009MAR12 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3347109733/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3347109733/
2010JUN24 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4728476663 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4728476663
- barrkel 16y agoOf that sampling, it hit the apex for me with Jan 2009 page. The Mar 2009 page is when there was an influx, and we started posting Erlang stories as a joke to stem the flow.
- jaredmck 16y agoThat Erlamg screenshot is hilarious. Only one story on the front page didn't have Erlang in the title, why HN had been slow...was it due to the amount of Erlang submissions?
- thorax 16y agoThe slowdown and Erlangfest was because of a big new influx of users, see pg's post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 And pg's appeal for sanity: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512280 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512280
- KirinDave 16y agoThey were a joke? I thought finally people were interested in something cool. :(
- mechanical_fish 16y agoWhat brings a tear to my eye is that, back in those days, it was hard for me to tell at first that it was a deliberate plot. It felt quite natural to have multiple discussions of Erlang on the front page.
- xentronium 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com//item?id=512145 http://news.ycombinator.com//item?id=512145
- barrkel 16y agoI don't know what you tried to do there, but it didn't work. Link is broken.
- kajecounterhack 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 He had an extra slash in his URL
- nitrogen 16y agoI was part of that influx (I registered 5 days before pg's Erlang post). I apologize for making the page worse for the rest of you ;-). Honestly, the Erlang posts contributed to keeping my interest (though I didn't pay much attention during the following summer as I was busy coding).
- Semiapies 16y agoPolitical and other front-page-news posts with little "hacker" content, blogs by irrelevant magazine columnists, posts about how X product/market/phenomenon is dooooomed, random questions about how the site works because the FAQ is a tiny link in the footer...and lots of posts by people horribly concerned that those damn noobs will stink the place up. I really haven't noticed HN get any worse in the two years I've been around.
- gms 16y agoI don't see any difference between the 2007 page and today's.
- scott_s 16y agoFrom August 2007: "Am I the only one who doesn't care about Facebook?" That has been a theme on HN longer than I realized.