HN's policy is that there is less official (mod-based) moderation where a YC connection exists, a point dang reiterated specifically concerning Reddit within the past week: <https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=36366909>
There have been a tremendous number of Reddit submissions in the past month (621 as I write this), as compared with 2,629 in the past year, which puts the preceding 11 months at a mean of 182 Reddit submissions.
Keep in mind that front page space is highly limited on HN. There are 30 slots per day (though there's some intra-day movement on and off those), or 10,950 front page stories per year.
I've been in the process of gathering and running some statistics and analysis of historic Reddit front-page activity, and even as of a few days ago, pro-rated for the year (and ignoring the fact that the floodgates really only opened just over three weeks ago: <https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=36141083>), 2023 is trending to exceed the high-water mark for front-page Reddit mentions set in 2012, of 46.[1]
(It takes about a half hour for me to update stats, I'll reply with current numbers when I have them.)
Mostly, I suspect it's a matter of the front page being hard to land, probably combined with fatigue on the topic. And I'm not without a horse in this race as I've just submitted an item of my own on the subject.
Update: Here's the mentions-by-years breakdown, as of 2023-6-21:
Given that we're 47% of the way through 2023, the pro-rated tally for the year would be about 62 FP stories, well above not only the recent trend (teens to twenties) but 134% of the all-time peak in 2012.
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Previously:
HN's policy is that there is less official (mod-based) moderation where a YC connection exists, a point dang reiterated specifically concerning Reddit within the past week: <https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=36366909>
There have been a tremendous number of Reddit submissions in the past month (621 as I write this), as compared with 2,629 in the past year, which puts the preceding 11 months at a mean of 182 Reddit submissions.
Keep in mind that front page space is highly limited on HN. There are 30 slots per day (though there's some intra-day movement on and off those), or 10,950 front page stories per year.
I've been in the process of gathering and running some statistics and analysis of historic Reddit front-page activity, and even as of a few days ago, pro-rated for the year (and ignoring the fact that the floodgates really only opened just over three weeks ago: <https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=36141083>), 2023 is trending to exceed the high-water mark for front-page Reddit mentions set in 2012, of 46.[1]
(It takes about a half hour for me to update stats, I'll reply with current numbers when I have them.)
Mostly, I suspect it's a matter of the front page being hard to land, probably combined with fatigue on the topic. And I'm not without a horse in this race as I've just submitted an item of my own on the subject.
Update: Here's the mentions-by-years breakdown, as of 2023-6-21:
Given that we're 47% of the way through 2023, the pro-rated tally for the year would be about 62 FP stories, well above not only the recent trend (teens to twenties) but 134% of the all-time peak in 2012.________________________________
Notes:
1. Earlier analysis from 8 days ago, here: <https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=36321773>