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Interesting. I posted a link to my shithole of a site in a comment a hundred deep in a post that had reached the top of the frontpage and had fallen to pretty m
by johnpowell 13y ago
Interesting. I posted a link to my shithole of a site in a comment a hundred deep in a post that had reached the top of the frontpage and had fallen to pretty much the bottom when I posted in the thread.
I got a extra 300 visitors that day and about 50 the next. The average visitors per day is around 25 so this is a big and noticeable spike.
I guess I am kinda shocked a random link in the middle of a dying thread generated that much traffic while something hitting the frontpage only generated about 53 times more traffic.
- dasil003 13y agoYou should put your site in your profile so you can see how many people come after you post an offhand reference to the fact that you may have once written something interesting elsewhere.
- johnpowell 13y agoWell I thought it was interesting that my shitty comment that linked to something I wrote got so many hits while getting on the frontpage got so little in comparison. I could get your angst if I had linked to it again or actually linked to it in my profile. But I did neither. So now I just think you are a dick.
- bennyg 13y agoI had a Show HN that made no headway on the frontpage (like 3 karma then it disappeared into the depths), but I posted that same link, relevantly, as a comment somewhere in the middle of the thread and it absolutely blew up. It's now my highest starred repo on Github and I started the phone interview process with Hulu because of it. Don't underestimate the comments here. A TON of people browse these posts too.
- dasil003 13y agoAngst? I wasn't being facetious, I actually checked your profile for a link to your site.