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Discussion on: The Internet Lottery™ for content creators

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Ben Halpern

I agree with this a lot. At DEV we do things to try to make this right—we also do a lot of things that are more of the same in terms of what you've described.

This is an open conversation I'd love to have whenever possible. We've done a few things lately to make progress on this front.

I'm excited by some of the concepts you've laid out and articulated well.

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

I guess you're already facing the problem that all niches do -- you're growing out of your niche and becoming widely popular. This puts a huge strain on whatever algorithm you're using.

It's a difficult battle between showing people highly rated content, and ensuring the new content is exposed. You don't want to entrench currently popular authors, but at the same time, you do want readers to see quality content, especially from people they follow.

I've see a lot of different strategies, Medium, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, they all take a different approach. I think about it a lot as well, and I don't know if I have a good solution. :/