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Ask HN: Whats up with InfoQ submissions on HN?
Hey all,
I noticed that practically no submissions from InfoQ.com on HN get any engagement at all. Almost no comments, no upvotes. And by looking at the search results there must be thousands of submissions.
I read their stuff occasionally and find interesting things there from time to time. So Im wondering:
Is InfoQ considered low-quality / low-standard? Why?
- sbierwagen 3y agoVisiting the website, I immediately see "Oracle" and "Java". Seems like a pretty generic website about enterprise development. That's fine, but is unlikely to light a fire in the hearts of HN users.
- JoeyBananas 3y agoI ran a web crawler on infoq.com one time and got banned. Seemed like a pretty good website but now i just get 403 errors
- brudgers 3y agoI read their stuff occasionally and find interesting things there from time to time. Given thousands of submissions, it might be seen as a low signal to noise ratio. A few years ago, I think there was more signal in what I saw on Hacker News...I remember that's where Rich Hickey talks showed up and made it to HN.
- gus_massa 3y agoIn the last month in https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=infoq.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=infoq.com , I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38503439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38503439 "Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar" (84 points | 7 days ago | 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429817 "Amazon EC2 Enhances Defense in Depth with Default IMDSv2" (39 points | 12 days ago | 56 comments) Which article do you like? Have you tried posting it?
- perelin 3y agoAh! Now thats interesting. When I use the Algolia powered HN search eg https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq it sorts by default by "Stories"->"Popularity"->"All Time". Highest scoring post there has 34 points. I would expect that at least the two posts that you dug up would appear there on the top. Or do I misunderstand how HN search should work?
- gus_massa 3y agoI'm not sure. It looks like algolia add more weight to the title than the url??? Or perhaps it's because in "[InfoQ]" it is a complete word, but in "infoq.com" it's a partial word???
- perelin 3y agoAgree, some search magic going on. Though I would expect a different ranking when I sort by "Popularity". And searching for "infoq.com" [1] gives even worse results imo. But ok, results expectations can be highly subjective :) [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq.com https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq.com