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> This bubble has spurred zero posts as far as I can tell, or zero that gained any traction. ... Did you look? Quick search turns up a bunch of stories that we
by diggan 1y ago
> This bubble has spurred zero posts as far as I can tell, or zero that gained any traction.
... Did you look? Quick search turns up a bunch of stories that were on the frontpage: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=false&query=bitcoin&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
> But in the past there was nothing new either, but it gained traction because of the numbers of comments.
That's the opposite of how things are ranked on HN. Submissions with more comments than votes are being pushed down the frontpage, not up.
- celticninja 1y ago2 posts on that page are less than 6 months old and they are both posts of the same thing.
- diggan 1y agoAll of them are less than 12 months old, and most of the results on the first search page been at one point on the frontpage. Another search, limiting it to >50 points (so passed through the frontpage at one point) and within the last 12 months, showing ~26 results: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=true&query=bitcoin%20points%3E50&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
- clippyplz 1y agoWhat? No, there are over 300 results when filtering by "last 6 months".
- celticninja 1y agoMaybe I'm spending less time here then. Not necessarily a bad thing