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Comment by howdydoo | Hacker News Reader

> We learned that the key to a post reaching the front page was the content itself.

Well that's good news, at least

I am torn between joy and depression that this is a notable finding. Nice that they noticed and followed the logical conclusion, at least:)

Well their observation is completely wrong. Timing is the most important factor which matters. I have seen thousands of extremely good non-political, neutral, tech related articles not getting a single upvote if it is submitted at times most of US/Western Europe is sleeping.

And clickbaiting works for sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845419

I initially named the post "Mercurial being rewritten in Rust" and that's how it made it to the front page, if I recall correctly, close to the first spot, even.

As soon as mods renamed it, it dropped like a rock.

Your point about timing is a good one (and was also something Dan mentioned in his presentation yesterday) so I created an MR to add it to the page: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...

Mind to share if there's a video or something of the presentation? Would love to see it, thanks.

Kind of makes you wonder what they learned was key on other channels.

Presumably there would be a similar page in the Gitlab Handbook if they had findings

There is: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/inbound-marketin...

They Found Out What Worked On Other Platforms And The Answer Will Astonish You.

What works on other platforms: Safe or Scam?

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