Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories
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#2Neat idea, thanks for sharing.
Curious choice to highlight Show HNs that didn't survive, but not the ones that did.
Is there a reason for this?
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#3Great visualisation. I was quite surprised that the submission dates and times appeared unimodal around an American morning peak.
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#4No affiliation, but the second to top deceased site is still alive and kicking [0]
Spot checking the top results might give a better estimate for how many are actually alive vs. just using bot protection.
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#5Recently I was browsing through old threads where users showed off their personal websites and blogs. I wanted to find some inspiration for my own website.
What I found instead were about 3/4 dead links – even though the threads were all from the last 4-5 years. I found that quite sad, because people often talked with great passion about their websites and they sounded really cool. Also i LOVE those small, personal islands in the big, commercialized and in many ways centralized web.
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#6Great visualisation. I was quite surprised that the submission dates and times appeared unimodal around an American morning peak.
n=1 but I know at least one non-american who has stayed up late so that the submission coincides with this peak time
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#7Regarding database hosting, if you would consider giving the data away, I would suggest converting it to an SQLite database and sharing it over Torrent.
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#8The top 250 has 8 dead projects from 2023. Of those 8, 5 are not dead at all, 1 is alive but has an expired certificate and only 2 (the lowest ranked) are dead. This does not seem like useful data.
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#9Recently I was browsing through old threads where users showed off their personal websites and blogs. I wanted to find some inspiration for my own website. What I found instead were about 3/4 dead links – even though the threads were all from the last 4-5 years. I found that quite sad, because people often talked with great passion about their websites and they sounded really cool. Also i LOVE those small, personal i…
Sadly that is nothing new. I used to run a website gallery and link rotting is incredibly high.
Same is true for another couple of projects I’m running now. I’m collecting personal websites and quirky small web experiments and the same is happening there.
Somewhat related is the phenomenon of dead blogs. Plenty of those with a couple of interesting posts and then abandoned.
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#10Thanks for making and sharing this - although I'm surprised it's not a "Show HN" itself!
I was curious about the top post that didn't survive - an HTML5 game called "airma.sh" - and I wanted to check it out. I think I found a working mirror: https://www.crazygames.com/game/airmash
It's possible that this is a different game, but it seems to fit the description.
Interestingly, the person who submitted that post stopped being active on HN after that discussion.