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IIRC that was a deliberate campaign to make the site unattractive to a spate of non-technical folks who had apparently all simultaneously discovered it.
by endtime 1y ago
IIRC that was a deliberate campaign to make the site unattractive to a spate of non-technical folks who had apparently all simultaneously discovered it.
- waterhouse 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 "We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang [...]" "Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine." Also some fun comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178
- ModernMech 1y agolol ask a community of autists for more posts about the innards of Erlang, don't be surprised when you get posts about the innards of Erlang.
- flakiness 1y agoThis is a great little anthropology work of you. Thanks for taking time to find this out!
- yen223 1y agoHere's what the frontpage looked like on the day of Erlang: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11