It’s not about you or your projects. You’re not being downweighted or flagged or penalized. Your posts are just not being seen, because the volume has gone up so much and what it takes to stand out from the crowd has changed so much, even in just 6 months. A project that is built with AI in a few days or even weeks does not cut it anymore, unless there’s something uniquely noteworthy about it - but you’re not writing up the kind of detailed intro posts that enable the audience to understand what is uniquely notable about your projects. (I’m happy to share a suggested format if you email us).

> Something else is going on, what is it?

The world is changing fast and everyone has to adapt.

Alright, but this is about me because it affects me

> A project that is built with AI in a few days or even weeks does not cut it anymore

That does not characterize my work - it’s typically months of work.

But you’re correct that I haven’t been writing detailed intros. I create stuff people can use and I prefer that experience to speak for itself, but … it’s necessary to intro it here, I think.

I have emailed you just now for that for reference.

> You’re not being downweighted or flagged or penalized.

Thanks for saying that, but where is the data to support that? It does not match my experience here.

The thing is my posts are being seen: six or more times over the last few months a new project I post will get 6 to 8 points on the new page, but it won’t graduate to show or front even though that puts it well above the lowest on the page. Or if rarely it gets to show it’ll remain in the dead zone of position six and below where votes barely accrue.

That suggests to me either consistent flagging or downweighting you’ve baked in or extended from the downweighting dang says here was happening for the comedy followups end of last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588#46329337

I have been using this website for a long time and it doesn’t feel to me like it’s simply a case of you need to clear a higher bar.

I feel the raised bar is part of it - but maybe you can look at the data of what I’ve posted, and whether it has been flagged consistently and by who or somehow caught in some unintended downweighting. It really does feel like that. Maybe you can have a look?

Thank you for the back and forth