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What making the Front Page did for our mobile app
- minimaxir 12y agoThe original post had 16 points (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972089) and peaked only in the first hour, which means it likely descended quickly on the front page. There's a huge difference between hitting the front page and hitting the top of the front page in terms of throughput. (speaking from experience)
- ggiaco 12y agoDefinitely makes sense. Have there been previous submissions analyzing the relative impact of the top 10 positions? I imagine it's pretty steep, but not quite as steep as for say, Google search results, since people are clicking through multiple submissions. As a habitual reader of both front page and second page submissions, I was surprised by how much traffic dropped off immediately after losing front page status.
- cschorn 12y agoI think the "unknown or expired link" effect is partly to blame here. I hardly ever bother to try clicking through to page 2 except when there's nothing interesting on the first page.
- csbrooks 12y agoWe have to go deeper... "What writing an article that made the front page about making the front page did for our website." Karmaception!