Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter
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Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter
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Re: Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter
#2My experience with HN has been much better than with Reddit. In reddit, even good posts get down ratings a lot of time.
The one thing i like about hacker news is your posts still have 1 point minimum even if others dont like it, whereas in reddit you fall down to 0 points which makes you feel discouraging sometimes.
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#3> A comment on HN is going to be mature and reasoned; often expanding or exploring technical issues raised
That's what I love about HN : the content of comments here are of a very high quality.
It's something that I've noticed with my own posts - well reasoned comments attract a lot of positive karma. Even if you're taking a controversial stance on an issue.
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#4According to my own mining, I should have waited a few hours before posting this :)
Anyway, some time next week I'll be in a position to add a line describing the success of "deeply meta" posts like this one ;)
We just have to get someone to post it to proggit too, I guess. And perhaps dzone...
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#5What I'd really like to see is some sort of "diffusion" system to let me know which link aggregation site found a URL first.
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#6No mention of Techmeme? I'll add that the best way of getting picked up by other bloggers is first Techmeme (not the largest audience but definitely the most influential in tech) and second HN.
I've had blog posts pick up their traffic peaks 2-3 days after they were posted as the route was techmeme -> other tech blogs -> mainstream media
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#7No mention of Techmeme? I'll add that the best way of getting picked up by other bloggers is first Techmeme (not the largest audience but definitely the most influential in tech) and second HN. I've had blog posts pick up their traffic peaks 2-3 days after they were posted as the route was techmeme -> other tech blogs -> mainstream media
wow, never heard of it; thank you :)
so what about dzone?
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#8> The per-page time is actually quite high; often over 5 minutes on average for a lot of my stories even when its a big crowd. I suspect some subtle misreading of Google Analytics on my part, or else people might actually be reading the whole thing carefully!?
That might be because a lot of people do what I do: keep the article open while browsing comments on HN or Reddit, and switch back and forth between the two tabs while writing my own comment. In fact, I'm doing it right now. I don't know how Google Analytics would measure time spent on a page when the page sits idle in a background tab for the most part but brought to the foreground from time to time.
[Edit] Things get even more complicated if you open 5 articles and 5 comment pages at the same time, and take 30+ minutes to go through all of them.
Re: Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter
#9My experience with HN has been much better than with Reddit. In reddit, even good posts get down ratings a lot of time. The one thing i like about hacker news is your posts still have 1 point minimum even if others dont like it, whereas in reddit you fall down to 0 points which makes you feel discouraging sometimes.
A lot of downvotes on reddit are actually inserted by the system, accompanied by the same number of upvotes to balance them out. This is supposed to be some sort of anti-spam anti-troll measure, though I'm not sure how that even works.
Anyway, the upshot is that you never know the true number of downvotes you got. This can be discouraging for people who don't know about computer-generated phantom votes.
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#10> The per-page time is actually quite high; often over 5 minutes on average for a lot of my stories even when its a big crowd. I suspect some subtle misreading of Google Analytics on my part, or else people might actually be reading the whole thing carefully!? That might be because a lot of people do what I do: keep the article open while browsing comments on HN or Reddit, and switch back and forth between the two ta…
I tend to have one window for recreation browsing and at the start of the day I will open HN and run down the front page middle clicking the link and the comments pages for anything that looks interesting or highly up-voted.
This gives me a queue of stuff I can read in free time throughout the day but I imagine it really does skew the analytics.