On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 06:42:39 UTC, Tejas wrote:
Sharing the link explicitly isn't counted as traffic by the website(meaning it won't help the post remain popular on HN), so Walter shares the link to the frontpage of hackernews to still get the extra traffic counted.
It's not about traffic, but upvotes. If anyone following the direct link upvotes the post, the upvote won't count.
