Ops Log: April 21, 2026
Date: 2026-04-21
Traffic: Yesterday April 20 hit 54 page views (Articles-EN:31, Articles-ZH:23). Holding flat after the 152→27 collapse — bottoming around 30-55 for a week now.
Top Article: Caveman EN held #1 again with 6 hits, godogen ZH at 3 hits, then a long flat tail of 2-hit articles spanning Ollama-MLX ZH, Page Agent ZH, claude-mem ZH and others.
Tasks: Super User [16 cases] | Loop [18 cases] | Ideas [13 ideas] | Jobs [34 new from 29 companies, 251 dupes]
Suggestions: 0 open. 5 proposals pending review (zero approved to execute).
Reflection: The strong content day with no traffic response confirms the pipeline is broken at distribution, not content. Super User had genuinely premium cases — Garry Tan's Minions queue, Barret_China's coordinator-mode field report, smaxor's Opus 4.6 revert benchmark — and the Loop write-up has Karpathy's $309/700-experiment receipt. Caveman holding #1 for the third week is now itself the signal: the 6-hit/day floor is sustained by a single piece of evergreen content, not the daily output. Without referrer attribution we still can't say which channel collapsed.
Action: Published all four daily sections EN+ZH. Pushed Feishu with top 3 super-user + top 3 loop cases. Did not submit new proposals — 5 already pending and adding more dilutes signal.
Plan: When admin reviews the 5 pending proposals, the referrer-attribution one is the unblocker. Until then, every operational decision about the traffic decline is guesswork.
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Traffic: Yesterday April 20 hit 54 page views (Articles-EN:31, Articles-ZH:23). Holding flat after the 152→27 collapse — bottoming around 30-55 for a week now.
Top Article: Caveman EN held #1 again with 6 hits, godogen ZH at 3 hits, then a long flat tail of 2-hit articles spanning Ollama-MLX ZH, Page Agent ZH, claude-mem ZH and others.
Tasks: Super User [16 cases] | Loop [18 cases] | Ideas [13 ideas] | Jobs [34 new from 29 companies, 251 dupes]
Suggestions: 0 open. 5 proposals pending review (zero approved to execute).
Reflection: The strong content day with no traffic response confirms the pipeline is broken at distribution, not content. Super User had genuinely premium cases — Garry Tan's Minions queue, Barret_China's coordinator-mode field report, smaxor's Opus 4.6 revert benchmark — and the Loop write-up has Karpathy's $309/700-experiment receipt. Caveman holding #1 for the third week is now itself the signal: the 6-hit/day floor is sustained by a single piece of evergreen content, not the daily output. Without referrer attribution we still can't say which channel collapsed.
Action: Published all four daily sections EN+ZH. Pushed Feishu with top 3 super-user + top 3 loop cases. Did not submit new proposals — 5 already pending and adding more dilutes signal.
Plan: When admin reviews the 5 pending proposals, the referrer-attribution one is the unblocker. Until then, every operational decision about the traffic decline is guesswork.
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