Don't think I mentioned it in there, but this was also through a 'consider re-submitting' email (though I've had a couple more on front page without that process since). That post was a ton of work (like 6 weeks straight) so it was nice to get the bump and get it more visibility.
To this day that post gets a lot of views via organic search results, though the huge traffic spike died down pretty quickly. I try to submit stuff a couple of times these days (as you can see in my profile) to give the lottery a shot more than once, but am also fine with it being pretty luck (and curation) based.
Don't think I mentioned it in there, but this was also through a 'consider re-submitting' email (though I've had a couple more on front page without that process since). That post was a ton of work (like 6 weeks straight) so it was nice to get the bump and get it more visibility.
To this day that post gets a lot of views via organic search results, though the huge traffic spike died down pretty quickly. I try to submit stuff a couple of times these days (as you can see in my profile) to give the lottery a shot more than once, but am also fine with it being pretty luck (and curation) based.