I am curious as to what makes these posts "Classic", as opposed to anything else.
(Also, this is my first post, please don't judge)
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I am curious as to what makes these posts "Classic", as opposed to anything else.
(Also, this is my first post, please don't judge)
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Hi Yamboy1, welcome to dev.to :-)
Thanks to your post I learned something new about dev.to's source code.
According to this file a post becomes a potential classic if:
It can also be just a random high quality article (min 75 positive reactions).
Then from the list of the candidates, one post gets chosen at random and put in a cache for 90 minutes.
I probably missed something but at least now we both know it's a combination of popularity, user input and randomness :)
Nailed it 😅
(Featured is a manual trigger by admins, basically for this purpose. We’d want to unfeature anything that is now out of date even if it was popular.)