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.

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.

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.

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

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

What works on other platforms: Safe or Scam?

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...