Oh and one last thing, in this specific case European people have a timezone advantage. Every daily list of products on PH is initialized at midnight PST, that means 9.00am CEST. So for EU people and products is ease to get an early boost of upvotes when US people (and products) are not active yet. cc @rrhoover
We made an update to the ranking a few weeks ago (details here) and will continue playing with it. It takes into account time since the product was posted to give products submitted late in the day an opportunity to get deserved attention.
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@rrhoover, I think you are trying to manage well the problem and as a matter of fact I noticed the ranking behaviour during the day and us loosing first spot regardless of number of votes. I tend to agree with your changes.
@bshih, I know what you mean. For the first 18 months we had a different approach and showed most of the content. We A/B test many decisions we make. Conversion rates were lower this way. This landing works better to have people try the product. Having said this, I am open to suggestions, and as a matter of fact we are considering also a new approach to show more content. Tx.
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