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It says on the page: Don't leave or you'll lose your spot. The queue worked fine for me as long as I stayed on the page. I assume it uses focus/visibility events and puts you at the back of the queue unless you keep it open and focused.

The queue length is jumping about a lot as people are visiting and leaving, because hn.




For various definitions of "leave". I had a similar experience: left it open a while, came back, never got to the #1 spot.


But then why did my spot jump _down_ by 60 spots when I alt-tabbed?


Maybe a bunch of people left?


Your comment didn't say it did that. What did the total queue length do when that happened?


I went from 188 to 140 when I alt-tabbed, so 48, not 60.




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