[detectivestory]

I do personally check out shownew quite often, yet I would never really visit new. I might not be a typical user, but I think I am a lot more likely to engage with a shownew post than someone who comes across it on new.

[aeonfox]

It's a bit like ProductHunt. The only people that look at ProductHunt, are the people that post on ProductHunt—or at least that's its reputation. Though that's an unfair comparison, because I think on HN there is actually genuine engagement by other builders (or perhaps I'm mistaken about PH).

[cs02rm0]

I don't think it's wildly unfair, it's a genuine problem.

Not that I have the answer unfortunately.

[aeonfox]

As in you think it's as bad on HN as it is on PH? From what I've heard PH is basically dead internet.

[cs02rm0]

Not quite as bad, but I do think the ShowHN posts suffer a form of the same issue where most posts seem to get very little attention and the little there is, probably comes from other people who post to it, rather than receiving the attention of the wider community (which, at least HN has).