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Well their observation is completely wrong. Timing is the most important factor which matters. I have seen thousands of extremely good non-political, neutral, t
by radmuzom 5y ago
Well their observation is completely wrong. Timing is the most important factor which matters. I have seen thousands of extremely good non-political, neutral, tech related articles not getting a single upvote if it is submitted at times most of US/Western Europe is sleeping.
- oblio 5y agoAnd clickbaiting works for sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845419 I initially named the post "Mercurial being rewritten in Rust" and that's how it made it to the front page, if I recall correctly, close to the first spot, even. As soon as mods renamed it, it dropped like a rock.
- john_cogs 5y agoYour point about timing is a good one (and was also something Dan mentioned in his presentation yesterday) so I created an MR to add it to the page: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_requests/97313 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...
- danvillalon 5y agoMind to share if there's a video or something of the presentation? Would love to see it, thanks.