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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by minimaxir on Monday August 27, 2018 @12:44PM (#17852526)
A rule of thumb for Hacker News submissions used to be that when getting to the front page, every score point translates to about 100 sessions/pageviews. In this case (17000 sessions for a 315 point submission), it was only about half that ratio.

That new ratio has been the case for a few of my recent submissions as well. I wonder if something changed in the HN demo?

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by dec0dedab0de on Monday August 27, 2018 @12:58PM (#17852662)
If I had to guess I would say that the changes a while back that made submissions linger on the front page have made the site less addictive. So there are less users constantly checking to make sure they don't miss out on something.
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