[catapart]

Hey all! Wild to see my silly question pop up on the front page, but very cool! I hope it was because of a spike in interest for some reason, but...

Please forgive me, this is the first time I've ever been on the front page, but I'm seeing something odd? I posted this topic days ago and it was well received and then kind of done. But now it is showing both on the front page and on the ask page as having been posted only 8 hours ago. Is that normal?

I did see a topic the other day about HN being flooded with content, where some mods responded that they were doing work in that area. If I hadn't seen that, I probably would have just assumed that any ask that gets bumped up to the front page might get re-zeroed for posting time on all the existing comments. But given the other topic, I thought I'd pop back in and ask!

That aside, I do appreciate everyone's comments! I can't respond to them all, but hopefully I've hit all the main suggestions so far. Thanks again for the breadth of consideration!

[codingdave]

Sometimes the PTB will give a post another chance at the front page when they feel it was a good post that deserved more attention that it got when originally submitted, and it behaves exactly like this - the time resets on the post and comments, and new discussion ensues.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

[catapart]

Awesome! TIL.

Thanks for the quick feedback! Makes sense, to me.