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Ask HN: Best day/time to post question to HN?
Based on your experience, when's the best time to post a question EST to get quality answers before it gets buried?
I.E. If your asking a "tech" question for SV types is early morning PST the best time, so about 1PM EST?
- wybo 15y agoI wrote this blog-post & essay/paper about HN a couple of weeks back. My finding was that there is not really a best time to post (in general, rather than asking questions) in terms of the number of replies you would get (but I only have looked at it starting the moment posts reach the front page): http://foundation.logilogi.org/2011/5/9/the-best-time-to-post-on-hn-and-other-time-effects http://foundation.logilogi.org/2011/5/9/the-best-time-to-pos... During busy times thread-churn is higher, but more people read them and reply, while during low activity times threads stay on longer but are read and replied to by about the same number of people, just over a longer period of time.
- mrspeaker 15y agoThis has been discussed a bunch of time before (though I'm sure the answer changes!) Here's my favourite answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1758554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1758554 And I'm sure there was a related blog post where he discussed title lengths (< 40 == good) and such, but I can't dig it up... anyone?
- BasDirks 15y agoDepends, I'm guessing you want to target the valley? Perhaps around 3 EST for a nice geographical spread (much later and much of Europe is hugging their teddybears).
- sonnym 15y agoStatistics on when posts are submitted can be found here: http://blog.itlater.com/whats-the-best-time-to-post-to-hackernews/ http://blog.itlater.com/whats-the-best-time-to-post-to-hacke... From that, take what you will.
- az 15y agothanks so much guys
- riffmaster 15y agothanks I needed this too :)