12:37 <Netfeed> dominikh: do you know how much traffic you get for the HN-post?

13:38 <dominikh> Netfeed: when I went to bed, the HN post had a score of 1 and got me maybe 5 visitors. doubt that changed

13:54 <Netfeed> 46 saves in feedly

13:55 <Netfeed> cool mode at least, so you have code in a language release now then?

14:11 <dominikh> do you mean the emacs mode?

14:13 <Netfeed> yeah

14:14 <dominikh> it was part of a couple releases of Go, yes. 1.4 kicks out all the editor and shell integeation, however

14:15 <Netfeed> really?

14:15 <dominikh> but I also submitted patches to the compiler and stdlib, so technically I still have code in a language release

14:15 <Netfeed> cool

14:15 <dominikh> yes. the Go team thinks the community should have to maintain editor plugins etc, not the team

14:16 <Netfeed> i agree

14:16 <dominikh> me too

14:28 <dominikh> Netfeed: wait, which HN post were you talking about

14:29 <dominikh> looks like there's been two posts to my blog on the same day :P

14:31 <Netfeed> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8686060

14:32 <dominikh> ah. I was thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8684430, hence my confusion when you talked about the emacs mode

14:34 <dominikh> the emacs one got 231 hits from HN, the tools one got 12 :D either way, unpopular posts don't get a lot of traffic from HN ;)

14:35 <Netfeed> heh, yeah, that's the way it goes if it's not about javascript or something that has to do with feminists :P

14:35 <dominikh> :D

14:35 <dominikh> my… second article in the "Go tip" series back then got a couple thousand, I think

14:36 <dominikh> but yeah, I don't particularly care about HN; don't read it, either

14:36 <Netfeed> it's a bit more "programmy" than /r/programming

14:37 <Netfeed> i'm just curious about how much traffic a site actually get in the "smaller" reddits and sites like HN

14:37 <dominikh> both are shit, really. the SNR on /r/programming doesn't even justify having the "S" in the abbreviation, and HN is a circle jerk

14:38 <dominikh> heck, even if you're on page one of HN, unless it's #1 and a really popular topic, the traffic is really quite low. the best I got was a couple thousands for some stupid rant

14:40 <Netfeed> there's some interesting stuff there, but i usually read it for the comments, the articles are usually pretty meh

14:41 <dominikh> the comments are even worse :P

14:42 <Netfeed> it's better there than on many other subs :)

14:45 <dominikh> I prefer real people I actually know to send me articles to read; and then I make sure not to read comments ;)