Is there a better time of day to post questions on Mahalo, maybe during peak traffic hours? Are a majority of users on Pacific Time?
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Interesting votes are the best way to get your questions answered... they = front page time.
~On weekdays the best time has been between 730am EST and 9am EST to get the early east coast traffic and hopefully an interesting team tipping vote or two to keep my question up on the front page, if this works and I get at least one vote many time my question(s) will remain on the front page all day as the rest of the United States wakes up and hopefully answers or adds another vote and answers the question. All day on the front page = a lot of answers.
~ also on weekdays .. somewhere on or around the lunchtime of each timezone in comparison to where I live, so 12 noon EST to 3pm EST because many folks use Mahalo at work and lunchtime is a good time to check back on Mahalo for interesting questions..and they do.
~ also on weekdays 730pm EST and each timezones representative of that time in EST so 730pm to 1030pm EST will be good time as well as dinner is finishing or finished and the evenings activities are being planned or engaged it already. Mahalo is a popular evening activity I have found.
+weekends just are a complete crapshoot and the timing is often a shot in the dark. I try to save good questions for weekdays as the chance of a weekend question just getting passed over for lack of visibility due to lack of traffic is far greater than on the weekdays. I like to ask more entertainment kinds of questions on the weekends.
A good overview of the front page and the number of interesting votes on other question will always be a great way to decide what time is a good time to ask an interesting question. Uniqueness and a standout profile on the question in relation to the other questions up there will be key in getting interesting votes and like I mentioned at the top ..interesting votes = front page time = more and better answers.
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I have found though, that weekends tend be be much slower than weekdays.
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However, you can say the majority of people are from US and Canada
Between east coast and west coast there's a time difference of 3 hours. I think there's more if you count the islands.
So when it's night in US and Canada there's much less traffic. Less questions, less answers, less everything. So it's better to post questions during the daytime
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thanks, that explains some things
I was surprised too to see that during weekends when people are supposed to have more free time, there are fewer questions than during weekdays,
In Yahoo Answers, on the contrary, there are more questions during weekends
Probably because at Yahoo Answers there are more teenagers and they post when the school is closed
Happy Mahalo anniversary, budda! And, as always, thanks for the good answer.