Ask HN: Whats up with InfoQ submissions on HN?

1 point by perelin 1 year ago | 7 comments
Hey all,

I noticed that practically no submissions from InfoQ.com on HN get any engagement at all. Almost no comments, no upvotes. And by looking at the search results there must be thousands of submissions.

I read their stuff occasionally and find interesting things there from time to time. So Im wondering:

Is InfoQ considered low-quality / low-standard? Why?

  • gus_massa 1 year ago
    In the last month in https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=infoq.com , I found

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38503439 "Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar" (84 points | 7 days ago | 21 comments)

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429817 "Amazon EC2 Enhances Defense in Depth with Default IMDSv2" (39 points | 12 days ago | 56 comments)

    Which article do you like? Have you tried posting it?

    • perelin 1 year ago
      Ah! Now thats interesting. When I use the Algolia powered HN search eg https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq it sorts by default by "Stories"->"Popularity"->"All Time". Highest scoring post there has 34 points. I would expect that at least the two posts that you dug up would appear there on the top. Or do I misunderstand how HN search should work?
      • gus_massa 1 year ago
        I'm not sure. It looks like algolia add more weight to the title than the url??? Or perhaps it's because in "[InfoQ]" it is a complete word, but in "infoq.com" it's a partial word???
        • perelin 1 year ago
          Agree, some search magic going on. Though I would expect a different ranking when I sort by "Popularity". And searching for "infoq.com" [1] gives even worse results imo. But ok, results expectations can be highly subjective :)

          [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq.com

    • brudgers 1 year ago
      I read their stuff occasionally and find interesting things there from time to time.

      Given thousands of submissions, it might be seen as a low signal to noise ratio.

      A few years ago, I think there was more signal in what I saw on Hacker News...I remember that's where Rich Hickey talks showed up and made it to HN.

      • JoeyBananas 1 year ago
        I ran a web crawler on infoq.com one time and got banned. Seemed like a pretty good website but now i just get 403 errors
        • sbierwagen 1 year ago
          Visiting the website, I immediately see "Oracle" and "Java".

          Seems like a pretty generic website about enterprise development. That's fine, but is unlikely to light a fire in the hearts of HN users.