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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #10
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sort of think there should be an 'important flagged discussions' link, ones with otherwise lots of engagement that got flagged by people who were opposed to the viewpoint of the post.

Flags are for "this shouldn't be here" not for "I disagree", AFAICT. It's bad enough that downvotes are used for disagreement.

I'm pretty sure that flags are used for disagree with viewpoint of this article.

on edit: discussing how I see flagged used, not how it should be used.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

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Post by madsbuch »

giansegato wrote: post #7

Neat! I wonder how it works. Does it poll every submission every set amount of seconds to check key stats over time? Looks like a huge amount of traffic. Is there any more efficient way I'm not seeing?

I would think that it loads page one and two of new and best every minute and records submissions. That is 4 requests per minute, which isn't that bad.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

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Post by yamrzou »

Neat, it feels fast and the charts are beautiful!

T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶u̶p̶v̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶:̶ ̶F̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶u̶p̶v̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶u̶b̶m̶i̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶t̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶6̶:̶2̶0̶:̶0̶8̶ ̶a̶m̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶2̶9̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶t̶e̶a̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶2̶ ̶(̶I̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶i̶l̶a̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶l̶ ̶:̶)̶)̶.̶

Edit: I was wrong, the upvote count is correct. I thought the timezone was UTC, it would be nice if the timezone information is added to the chart.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

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Post by janmo »

giansegato wrote: post #7

Neat! I wonder how it works. Does it poll every submission every set amount of seconds to check key stats over time? Looks like a huge amount of traffic. Is there any more efficient way I'm not seeing?

It is a web crawler that goes through the front page and new submission page every minute.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

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Post by janmo »

madsbuch wrote: post #12
giansegato wrote: post #7

Neat! I wonder how it works. Does it poll every submission every set amount of seconds to check key stats over time? Looks like a huge amount of traffic. Is there any more efficient way I'm not seeing?

I would think that it loads page one and two of new and best every minute and records submissions. That is 4 requests per minute, which isn't that bad.

Currently I am doing 6 requests a minute

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

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Post by spsphulse »

argvargc wrote: post #15

This is amazing. Would you consider releasing the source? If not would you care to comment on development; language(s), dependencies etc?

Yes. Fantastic project! Woul love to know more details & key architectural decisions.
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