I must admit I'm nauseated by the number of references to reddit on HN. I think reddit is powerful and fills a void, but the few times I've visited > cmnd+w. Twitter is also useful on occasion, but simply not my "cup of tea." These sites feel like eternal September, and make me consider suicide (not to over-dramatize...).
Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter
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#22> 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…
A news site in Australia here seems to know when the tab is visible and auto plays the video content for a story. I assume it's using these Javascript events too.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It didn't get a single upvote. that is because it is in the spam filter. you need to message the moderators.
O right. How did you determine that? To be honest I'm not a redditor. It's not a site that I visit, so I don't understand how it works.
I check by opening a Chrome Incognito tab (so unauthenticated) and view the "new" page for that subreddit. So http://reddit.com/r/programming/new
If it's not there I assume it's in the spam queue and message the mods. It's a pretty crap UX but it works to keep out spammers I suppose.
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#24I must admit I'm nauseated by the number of references to reddit on HN. I think reddit is powerful and fills a void, but the few times I've visited > cmnd+w. Twitter is also useful on occasion, but simply not my "cup of tea." These sites feel like eternal September, and make me consider suicide (not to over-dramatize...).
I think to a certain extent 3 or 4 years ago Reddit was very much like HN is now. When I first joined Reddit (2007) there was generally a lot of reasoned discussion, and the submissions were very much programmer orientated in a way that's long since passed.
I'd imagine (although I suppose I have no real evidence for this) that the people who talk about Reddit and HN in the same context were active on Reddit a few years ago.
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#25> 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…
This is why I wrote my own datapoint gathering script (I started it while at Techcrunch, curious about who scrolls down to comments, etc.). It measures body focus, number of times unfocused, total focus time, scroll position, scroll rate and a bunch of other things. It isn't completely working cross-browser yet, but it is close and useful enough where for Safari and Chrome visitors I can see how far down the page the…
No doubt, this is part of the reason this noscript_using_reader stopped visiting TC. Call me a tinfoilhat-guy, but I simply would not consent to the collection of such data. It's ironic that I've learned so much from your analysis of data collection techniques elsewhere.
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#26I must admit I'm nauseated by the number of references to reddit on HN. I think reddit is powerful and fills a void, but the few times I've visited > cmnd+w. Twitter is also useful on occasion, but simply not my "cup of tea." These sites feel like eternal September, and make me consider suicide (not to over-dramatize...).
I think to a certain extent 3 or 4 years ago Reddit was very much like HN is now. When I first joined Reddit (2007) there was generally a lot of reasoned discussion, and the submissions were very much programmer orientated in a way that's long since passed. I'd imagine (although I suppose I have no real evidence for this) that the people who talk about Reddit and HN in the same context were active on Reddit a few yea…
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I was rather hoping this blog post would turn up on proggit and, instead of hate-clicking, there'd be a discussion about rediscovering proggit's past.
I've tried to think of solutions before too: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-...
Being pro-content anti-community is not so popular over on proggit ;)
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#27I must admit I'm nauseated by the number of references to reddit on HN. I think reddit is powerful and fills a void, but the few times I've visited > cmnd+w. Twitter is also useful on occasion, but simply not my "cup of tea." These sites feel like eternal September, and make me consider suicide (not to over-dramatize...).
To enjoy Reddit (nowadays) you have to select specific sub-reddits you are interested in. It can be very interesting and nice then.
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#28According 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...
As an amateur, beginner programmer, I'm curious why you don't use something like Jekyll+S3 rather than tumblr. The dude that pulls my espresso shots uses tumblr...
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#29On what data are these assumptions based? Don't see any reference.
So for me he uses numbers to support his conclusions but I can't check them.
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#30On what data are these assumptions based? Don't see any reference. So for me he uses numbers to support his conclusions but I can't check them.
They are based on my Google analytics account.
I am not going to share it with you ;)
Feel free to disbelieve my data or my conclusions.