Ziptr to Discontinue Services
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Ziptr to Discontinue Services
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Re: Ziptr to Discontinue Services
#2HN upvoting can be a mystery sometimes.
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#3HN upvoting can be a mystery sometimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6440367
On the upside, if it's really important, it tends to reappear again and again until it gets picked up.
HN: Lots of false negatives, few persistent false positives.
Re: Ziptr to Discontinue Services
#4I wonder if this is governmental pressure or merely "ran out of money"/normal commercial concerns.
Re: Ziptr to Discontinue Services
#5HN upvoting can be a mystery sometimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6440367
The timing makes all the difference. Luck, too.
Re: Ziptr to Discontinue Services
#6I wonder if this is governmental pressure or merely "ran out of money"/normal commercial concerns.
NSA concerns clearly.
Re: Ziptr to Discontinue Services
#7HN upvoting can be a mystery sometimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6440367
From the other submission, a link to Ziptr's announcements:
http://www.ziptr.com/ziptr-closing-92713
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#8I wonder if this is governmental pressure or merely "ran out of money"/normal commercial concerns.
"ran out of money" wouldn't have this "we can't say anything, we are closing it now" odor.
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#10HN upvoting can be a mystery sometimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6440367
It's not entirely mysterious: because of the way votes are weighted, the timing of the first two or three really matters. If you manage to get them while you're still on the new page, you have a good chance of getting on the front page which is the only way to get much exposure. If you fall off the new page without that, your article is essentially forgotten.
This means the success of your article falls down to the whims of the few people browsing `new' at any given moment. If you're lucky, there are people interested in your topic there; if not, your article might easily fall through the cracks. Moreover, since `new' has a very bad signal to noise ratio, most people do not spend very much time there. I certainly don't! So this means it's even more likely for an article to fall through the cracks there.
For better or worse, this means HN misses out on good articles as they fall through `new' without getting votes. To get anywhere your article needs to be both good and lucky.