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reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
https://news.ycombinator.com/news
Jul 27
parent reply Mindy Batek (0xEAB) <desisma heidel.beer> writes:
On Tuesday, 28 July 2026 at 00:13:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/news


These links age like milk ;)
Jul 29
parent reply "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh qfbox.info> writes:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 11:05:04PM +0000, Mindy Batek (0xEAB) via Digitalmars-d
wrote:

 On Tuesday, 28 July 2026 at 00:13:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/news


 
 These links age like milk ;)


This specific link, in particular, lasts for oh, maybe a couple of
minutes? At the most an hour or two.  In less than a day it would have
scrolled off the page.


T

-- 
In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion.
Jul 29
next sibling parent Mike Shah <mshah.475 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 23:29:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 11:05:04PM +0000, Mindy Batek (0xEAB) 
 via Digitalmars-d wrote:

 On Tuesday, 28 July 2026 at 00:13:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/news


 
 These links age like milk ;)


 This specific link, in particular, lasts for oh, maybe a couple 
 of minutes? At the most an hour or two.  In less than a day it 
 would have scrolled off the page.


 T


Here's the direct link: 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076840 :)
Jul 29
prev sibling parent reply matheus <matheus gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 23:29:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 11:05:04PM +0000, Mindy Batek (0xEAB) 
 via Digitalmars-d wrote:

 On Tuesday, 28 July 2026 at 00:13:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/news


 
 These links age like milk ;)


 This specific link, in particular, lasts for oh, maybe a couple 
 of minutes? At the most an hour or two.  In less than a day it 
 would have scrolled off the page.
 ...


Years ago I made a game and posted on that same site, it hit the 
top for long hours and stayed on the front page for about 2 days, 
and all I got was about 70K visits (Unique users), but when I 
looked around on google, I found out that at same time my url was 
spread to some reddit subs as well. So is hard to say where the 
visitors came.

Months later I released another game a posted there, it stayed 
for a couple of hours on the front page and I gathered less than 
3K visits, this time there was less reddit sharing.

Matheus.
Jul 30
parent reply user1234 <user1234 12.de> writes:
On Thursday, 30 July 2026 at 09:00:22 UTC, matheus wrote:

 Years ago I made a game and posted on that same site, it hit 
 the top for long hours and stayed on the front page for about 2 
 days, and all I got was about 70K visits (Unique users), but 
 when I looked around on google, I found out that at same time 
 my url was spread to some reddit subs as well. So is hard to 
 say where the visitors came.

 Months later I released another game a posted there, it stayed 
 for a couple of hours on the front page and I gathered less 
 than 3K visits, this time there was less reddit sharing.

 Matheus.


Nowadays there would be even less visit coming from reddit as 
r/programming is almost dead.
Jul 31
next sibling parent reply Lance Bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Friday, 31 July 2026 at 14:59:32 UTC, user1234 wrote:

 On Thursday, 30 July 2026 at 09:00:22 UTC, matheus wrote:

 Years ago I made a game and posted on that same site, it hit 
 the top for long hours and stayed on the front page for about 
 2 days, and all I got was about 70K visits (Unique users), but 
 when I looked around on google, I found out that at same time 
 my url was spread to some reddit subs as well. So is hard to 
 say where the visitors came.

 Months later I released another game a posted there, it stayed 
 for a couple of hours on the front page and I gathered less 
 than 3K visits, this time there was less reddit sharing.

 Matheus.


 Nowadays there would be even less visit coming from reddit as 
 r/programming is almost dead.


Yeah, I don't think that subreddit is important these days. At 
its peak, it was a much bigger deal than HN. It's been a while 
now, but it made a sudden turn from real programming content to 
beginner hello world affirmations and memes and low-end trash 
like that. Not sure why the mods put a stop to it. Or maybe they 
did, but it's been years since I visited...
Jul 31
parent reply user1234 <user1234 12.de> writes:
On Friday, 31 July 2026 at 21:49:42 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:

 On Friday, 31 July 2026 at 14:59:32 UTC, user1234 wrote:

 On Thursday, 30 July 2026 at 09:00:22 UTC, matheus wrote:

 Years ago I made a game and posted on that same site, it hit 
 the top for long hours and stayed on the front page for about 
 2 days, and all I got was about 70K visits (Unique users), 
 but when I looked around on google, I found out that at same 
 time my url was spread to some reddit subs as well. So is 
 hard to say where the visitors came.

 Months later I released another game a posted there, it 
 stayed for a couple of hours on the front page and I gathered 
 less than 3K visits, this time there was less reddit sharing.

 Matheus.


 Nowadays there would be even less visit coming from reddit as 
 r/programming is almost dead.


 Yeah, I don't think that subreddit is important these days. At 
 its peak, it was a much bigger deal than HN. It's been a while 
 now, but it made a sudden turn from real programming content to 
 beginner hello world affirmations and memes and low-end trash 
 like that. Not sure why the mods put a stop to it. Or maybe 
 they did, but it's been years since I visited...


That is not just proggit, little history (IA):

Reddit moderator strikes refer to organized protests—most notably 
the June 2023 blackout involving over 8,000 subreddits—where 
volunteer community managers shut down or restrict access to 
forums to protest controversial platform monetization changes and 
API pricing policies.



- The 2023 Blackout: Over 8,000 communities went private or 
restricted access for days, with some protesting by exclusively 
posting images of comedian John Oliver or marking boards as NSFW.
- Platform Pushback: Reddit management refused to change their 
policies, threatened to remove uncooperative volunteer 
moderators, and forcefully reopened locked communities.
- Result: The strikes ultimately failed to force policy reversals 
because unpaid moderators were easily replaced by the company and 
most users eventually returned to the platform.

(Back to human thoughts)

So basically it's been 3 years that the plateform is almost dead, 
despite of advertising campaigns (as seen in Paris subway) it has 
nothing to do with what it used to be before June 2023.
Jul 31
next sibling parent reply Kapendev <alexandroskapretsos gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 1 August 2026 at 03:17:11 UTC, user1234 wrote:

 So basically it's been 3 years that the plateform is almost 
 dead, despite of advertising campaigns (as seen in Paris 
 subway) it has nothing to do with what it used to be before 
 June 2023.


There is activity in the Reddit programmingo page. I personally 
don't care about it. Just give me my views and reactions and bye 
bye. The only community worth spending real time on is the D one, 
of course.
Jul 31
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 7/31/2026 11:37 PM, Kapendev wrote:

 The only community worth 
 spending real time on is the D one, of course.


Abso-freakin-lutely!
Aug 01
prev sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=C3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 7/31/26 8:17 PM, user1234 wrote:


 (IA):


That made me wonder.


 Paris subway


And that explained it. ;)

Ali
Aug 02
parent user1234 <user1234 12.de> writes:
On Sunday, 2 August 2026 at 18:14:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 7/31/26 8:17 PM, user1234 wrote:


 (IA):


 That made me wonder.


 Paris subway


 And that explained it. ;)

 Ali


well done, you've spotted the inglorious frog.
Aug 03
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 7/31/2026 7:59 AM, user1234 wrote:

 Nowadays there would be even less visit coming from reddit as r/programming is 
 almost dead.


I gave up on r/programming over a decade ago. There wasn't anything intelligent 
going on in it.
Aug 01
parent reply Luna <luna foxgirls.gay> writes:
On Saturday, 1 August 2026 at 17:50:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 7/31/2026 7:59 AM, user1234 wrote:

 Nowadays there would be even less visit coming from reddit as 
 r/programming is almost dead.


 I gave up on r/programming over a decade ago. There wasn't 
 anything intelligent going on in it.


Arguably same for hacker news. Most of the time I end up there 
it’s just Reddit again with people confidently spouting 
misinformation.
Aug 04
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 8/4/2026 4:10 PM, Luna wrote:

 Arguably same for hacker news. Most of the time I end up there it’s just
Reddit 
 again with people confidently spouting misinformation.


I see your point.

But also dang has done a great job as moderator. And I like the minimalism of
it.
Aug 04