I mention top because you mentioned "missing good material." Top, if you look beyond a day, should ensure you don't miss stuff that other people found good.
I'm sure of that but, I have also noticed that there's a cycle of activity, and there's a period in which posts get very little attention, so that mostly posts published within the more active time-window are the ones ending up on top and hot (correct me if wrong). Thus I'm not missing what other people consider good material, but we might be all doing it. It's of course an impression of mine, it would be interesting to see if your metrics indicate that attention tends to be more distributed
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41 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 31 Jul
No, you're right, there's definitely an american-based activity cycle. Most of the people active on SN are in the western hemisphere. We just don't have a lot of folks on SN yet.
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Ok, it's something to ponder then, because it could lead to a "chicken before the egg" situation: potential stackers out of that time-window might get demotivated at starting because their windows of activity are out of sync, and thus their material statistically fail to catch attention. So they leave, and thus the public within that new time-window never develops. So there should be a way to flatten the ponderation bell of the ranking a little bit more so that it can overlap just well enough with other time-windows to help them to catch up.
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SN time zone is central or the same as Chicago
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What's that?
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RSS feed of SN on Telegram
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Interesting! How does it differs from the web feed?
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Telegram feed is an incomplete version of the web feed but it's easier to scan imo