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Re:Blogging Is Not Dead by thomasahle on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:01PM (#23239449)
Interesting, I didn't know about the second chance queue. This appears to be the best source of information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

Personally I was sad when my tiny python chess engine Sunfish [1] didn't make it past the two-three upvotes stage. However about half a year later somebody else submitted it and it got a lot of traction.

I wonder how accepted it is to resubmit the same, or a version of, your project or blog post, to try your luck again.

[1] https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish

Re:Blogging Is Not Dead by alextheparrot on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:22PM (#23239701)
The FAQ guidance seems to be that a few reposts a year iff the story didn’t already get transaction is fine — seems like a good barometer.

Personally, I’d prefer if someone reposted a good blog post or project rather than trying to develop new things just to have the ability to post something.

Re:Blogging Is Not Dead by muppetman on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:13AM (#23243496)
Ha! I was just goggling furiously yesterday to remember the name of Sunfish. I had a .py called "chess.py" on a server. Not anywhere in the .py file is there a URL or a name or an email.

Anyway after cutting and pasting bits of code into Google I finally turned up the github page. You should put some (basic) info into each file you've got there.

Anyway Sunfish is cool, thanks.

Re:Blogging Is Not Dead by thomasahle on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:00AM (#23243717)
But then the number of lines would increase :-D