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it's only been 18 days since your show HN post. maybe you can find other places to promote this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926666

They didn’t promote it. They submitted it. The promotion happened with the upvotes. That being said, if it is such a pain that something that was submitted before was submitted again, I can provide help balancing the universe by not submitting something that was never submitted before. Let me know if that helps.

Honestly it would help me if people just posted the link themselves if they found it interesting. Whenever I do it it's frowned upon for 'self promotion' even though people find it very interesting and useful. Maybe that's the play!

The repost rule doesn't care who posts it.

If I read the rules and ctrl+f for repost I only find: 'Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.'

Which rule are you referencing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

(I had forgotten that was on the FAQ page or I'd have referenced it explicitly - it's a bit weird it's in there)

The link directly to my Github repo received attention, but a post that is to the live instance has yet to receive any significant attention. The two things are separate, one is a source code that hypothetically does something, the other is a legitimate file-hosting platform.

Sorry, I've just been working a lot on the frontend lately and feel that the actual live instance now is about a 1.0 which is my motivation for the post. Hopefully that's OK I know there's a LOT of people who have still never heard about this but find it interesting.

If you want to keep re-submitting maybe consider starting a dev blog where you can explain what's new, instead of just reposting the same thing over and over again with no context.

I did that based on a suggestion before, and wrote up a pretty long blog entry about my motivation for the project and it got like zero pickup on HN. People really like to just see the real thing, here is the post for reference: https://medium.com/@NodeTube_org/my-plan-to-ensure-the-free-...

The problem was that you reposted it as "Introducing". That's clearly a dupe relative to the Show HN. If you made a post specifically about the differences since the last post, that might be ok, though probably not as a Show HN. It depends on how major the differences are, and how intellectually interesting they are to discuss.

HN has clear rules about when you are allowed to repost, as people explained to you already when you complained the last time one of your posts got flagged.

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