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Previous discussion (2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734685

• dang 3y ago
  That one never made the front page so maybe we'll move the comments hither and let this one run. (It's on my list to do more for submissions like that which accrue a bunch of upvotes slowly but never break the front page...)
  • remram 3y ago
    Looks like you did the move. It's really weird because it changed the timestamps on all the comments... They are even different between my "threads" page and what I see when I click through.
    • dang 3y ago
      Yes, sorry, I know it's confusing. I relativized the timestamps for 2 reasons: (1) if we didn't do that, commenters would start asking "why are there a bunch of comments here older than the OP they're commenting on?" - and our experience is that this leads to more confusion than the other way around; plus (2) it seems unfair to have all the comments on the earlier thread plummet to the bottom of the new thread because they're so much older. This topic comes up regularly in a slightly different context, which is re-upping stories that make it into the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). There are a bunch of past explanations here in case helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20timestamps%20re-up&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....