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by maeil 607 days ago
One of the biggest issues with Product Hunt is that more than 60% of its users are bots [1]. Any plans for keeping your alternative from ending up in the same state?

[1] https://wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots

2 comments

That comparison of box plots is so stupid it made me close the tab. The "bot"'s comment activity has three peaks: Morning, lunch and quitting time. Congratulations, you "detected" a human pattern.
I feel like this is a problem for later as my traffic is no where near PH. But social verification can be a good start