Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hacker News

Re:Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hac... by KateKendall on Friday June 08, 2012 @10:40AM (#4084379)

Congrats Kale. I've been loving TimeHop lately and think it'll equally apply to non-social content. Is there a way you can scale 'curation'? This is something I'm currently researching for The Fetch...

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Re:Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hac... by duck on Friday June 08, 2012 @10:47AM (#4084403)

Thanks Kate! Scaling is tough, but I think you have to use every type of feedback you can get, so for me I look at what is being read in each issue and finding patterns. Curation is all about the audience, which is why the newsletter approach works so well.

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Re:Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hac... by KateKendall on Friday June 08, 2012 @11:09AM (#4084543)

Have you thought of making the WayBackLetter a section of the HNL? Seems like you already have a great audience that wouldn't mind receiving a few links of all-time HN goodness in it. You could then save the neat WBL domain for multi-purpose cool reads from across the web!

Congrats again on the 100th issue!

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Re:Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hac... by duck on Friday June 08, 2012 @11:16AM (#4084584)

I actually have a "Classics" section in HNL already. This is why I started exploring this idea since that section always has a high CTR. Actually, in some issues one of the classics will have the highest CTR of any link!

Edited to add: And I mentioned it above, but my hope is to expand this beyond just HN in the future. :)

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