EDIT: Aha:
Mark Aiken
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Mar 17 '20
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I can't say anything for sure about surging, but I see a lot of and interact with old posts. They're usually below whatever I'm reading as a classic DEV post or a suggested post.
Maybe you wrote a classic!
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591507 is probably why
Aha - definitely. Weird! Thanks for the link, I'm rarely on HN.
Good for you. Reading too much HN seems to cause Coronavirus related symptoms according to the latest studies😂
Do you know how a post might end up on the Google discover feed? This randomly happened to me.
Yeah, I actually see mine pop up there from time to time, too. No clue how Google's scrapers work, but your results are individualized. I assume it's because I spend a good amount of time reading about the same things I write about.
Well, you can say that you wrote some hidden treasures...
Ah, sounds like "got linked somewhere" is the culprit :)
Maybe someone linked your article in a new one they wrote (as reference). In any case, were you able to find out what the actual reason is?
Turn out someone posted it to HackerNews :)
haha there you go --- although someone posting your content on another platform without your knowledge can be an issue
True - but DEV posts are public domain and this was a link to the actual article here, not a copied text. I'm not too concerned, but it is something to watch for.
right on. good luck mate !
I did enjoy that article very much, but didn't connect until just now it was yours! Don't let the wet blankets and armchair critics get you down. It was funny. :3
#deepcutsOh, I'm not - just think it's striking to see the difference between DEV and HN (or anywhere else) comment threads. Her jimmies weren't rustled, I'm not too concerned about a few stray netizens. All told, I was thrilled to read through all the new commentary there, I was not expecting to learn a bunch more about these things again nearly a year after the fact.
Indeed, always exciting!
I agree it's a little odd. One of my friends messaged my that a random DEV post I wrote showed up on his Google discover feed. No idea why or how