I cannot understand how the dev algorithm ranks the posts.
I created an article yesterday, but even when I look for it under the tags I specified I cannot find the post.
Here is the post
If I look under #react or #javascript, I cannot find it.
I also haven't even come across my post once on my main feed, while articles which are just 20-30mins old have started to appear.
What's the secret?
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dev.to is open source, so you can check yourself.
The blackbox.rb file seems to be the right place to start looking.
There is also a score_calc_job.rb which seems to periodically update the current hotness.
Blackbox is exactly, part of the algo is missing so we can never really know the whole story.