Best time to publish an Instructable
Call me vain, but it sure does feel good to receive a few thousand views for a newly published Instructable. So I got to thinking about which day of the week would result in the best exposure for a new Instructable. Being featured is important of course - without that little banner the Instructable will never reach the editors' picks section, the front page, or the newsletter.
So assuming you can create an Instructable which will be featured, when's a good time to post it? I find that publishing an Instructable on Thursday or Friday morning-midday is a good idea - this gives the editors time to review and feature your Instructable before the weekend. If you're lucky enough to have your 'ible featured on the frontpage on Saturday, I think it pretty much sits there for the whole weekend since the editors are not in the office to approve new homepage 'ibles. Even if you don't make the front page, it'll stay at the top of the editors' picks section for awhile. Publishing from Friday afternoon to Sunday might be a bad idea since that's when a lot of people have the time to publish, so come Monday the front page is backed up with newly featured Instructables.
Yes, I am a littleobsessed preoccupied with this whole idea, but I don't think I'm insane, which means that someone else out there must be wondering the same thing. What do you think?
So assuming you can create an Instructable which will be featured, when's a good time to post it? I find that publishing an Instructable on Thursday or Friday morning-midday is a good idea - this gives the editors time to review and feature your Instructable before the weekend. If you're lucky enough to have your 'ible featured on the frontpage on Saturday, I think it pretty much sits there for the whole weekend since the editors are not in the office to approve new homepage 'ibles. Even if you don't make the front page, it'll stay at the top of the editors' picks section for awhile. Publishing from Friday afternoon to Sunday might be a bad idea since that's when a lot of people have the time to publish, so come Monday the front page is backed up with newly featured Instructables.
Yes, I am a little
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It seems to take a while for some instructables to get featured. It may just need some time to go through the process.
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a) its right before the weekend (everyone uses the internet on weekends)
b) Because its right before the weekend it has some time to get featurd before then
I have enough trouble finding the time and energy to finish and publish a project that I don't worry about when (except for contest deadlines).
I am typing at work on my lunch break now, but by the time I get home it is unlikely I will drag myself upstairs to work on the 4 unfinished 'ibles and Event report.
The only thing I try to avoid is posting the last day a contest is open - especially if your ible is unrelated... you tend to get buried in pages of cupcakes or something. ;)
I think this is partly due to the relaxed nature of work on Fridays, and people checking the site before the weekend.
I know that at least one UK member of the CT is online most nights until 11pm or later. That's about 6am California time, so between him and HQ, that's 21/24 hours covered in the week, and close to that at weekends.
Add the other members, and there is close to to 24/7 coverage for featuring, which is why the majority of featurable projects get featured within an hour of posting.