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Thanks for the feedback! It's actually creating its own database so as time goes on, it will show everything since it's been running. I didn't want to scrape th

by ddod 14y ago

Thanks for the feedback! It's actually creating its own database so as time goes on, it will show everything since it's been running. I didn't want to scrape through the backlog as I've already gotten banned a couple times while making this (prompting pg's recent unban post) and I didn't want to push my luck. The upvotes thing is tricky because it's very time sensitive. I thought about it for a bit, but besides the difficulty in judging when to update the points, it also goes against the goal that all Show HNs are given the spotlight even if they didn't do so well.

JimWestergren 14y ago
Makes sense. I will use your site.
danso 14y ago
Don't know how you're scraping this...but why not just keep track of the current upvote totals everytime you crawl the list (up to a certain cutoff point...I don't think upvotes more than three weeks from now really mean anything)...It's nice to see all the Show HN's in one place, but if some of them were flops, then they won't be more interesting when viewed from this app. However, I think it is always useful to see what great Show HN's we might have missed in the week or month...not all of us check the frontpage every day or mark down all the things we wish we had time to visit later.