Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by jinseokim | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

jinseokim

This has been submitted to HN quite a few times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426662 (Most comments; 11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417067 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546867 (Most recent; 89 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424852

View on HN

Interesting that the most comments it got before was 11, and today it succeeds and makes it to the front page! This is a good illustration of whether or not submissions get any traction can be fairly stochastic.

On topic, stack overflow does exactly what the article is talking about; They lock down their sitemap and make special exceptions for the Google bot:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98087

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33965/how-does-stac...

I can understand SO's reasoning but it only perpetuates the incumbents' stranglehold on the internet.

I think it's partly because they create a website which reported on the status of the Ever Given which rose to 1. on the front page.

I feel like I often see submissions which are, even tangentially, related to front page material rise very quickly.

Regardless, congrats to Knuckleheads Club for fighting the good fight.

You are right, that was how I found it.

> They lock down their sitemap and make special exceptions for the Google bot:

Their robots.txt, on the other hand, is more restrictive of Googlebot:

https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt

  User-agent: Googlebot-Image
  Disallow: /*/ivc/*
  Disallow: /users/flair/
  Disallow: /jobs/n/*
  ..

Wasn't aware of that.

Resubmitting interesting content that hasn't got traction earlier on is however explicitly allowed in the guidelines IIRC.

And linking past threads on the same subject is helpful.

Hooray! Looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. :)

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com