What making the Front Page did for our mobile app

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6 pointsggiaco4 comments

The original post had 16 points (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972089) and peaked only in the first hour, which means it likely descended quickly on the front page.

There's a huge difference between hitting the front page and hitting the top of the front page in terms of throughput. (speaking from experience)

Definitely makes sense. Have there been previous submissions analyzing the relative impact of the top 10 positions? I imagine it's pretty steep, but not quite as steep as for say, Google search results, since people are clicking through multiple submissions.

As a habitual reader of both front page and second page submissions, I was surprised by how much traffic dropped off immediately after losing front page status.

I think the "unknown or expired link" effect is partly to blame here.

I hardly ever bother to try clicking through to page 2 except when there's nothing interesting on the first page.

We have to go deeper... "What writing an article that made the front page about making the front page did for our website." Karmaception!

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