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Dave Verwer
Personal blog · daveverwer.com/blogprogramming
Dave Verwer's personal blog at daveverwer.com covers programming. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Saying goodbye to App Review Times”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Verwer's posts about Apple's App Review times, including his post saying goodbye to his App Review Times tracker. Commenters cite it for the history of review times and the reasons the tracker was shut down.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Saying goodbye to App Review Times4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-05-21
What Hacker News says?
It doesn't say because Apple being Apple, it never acknowledged it had a problem, but this is the gist: > In 2016 Phil Schiller took over the App Store group inside Apple and pretty quickly review times reduced from weeks to “about a day” across all of the stores and review times have now been consistent for about three years. In my mind this problem is totally solved. Whole story here: https://daveverwer.com/blog/s…
Comment linking /blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-times/
on “Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App Review Process”Submitted Saying goodbye to App Review Times as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI guess it still drives some traffic worth profiting from ads, but you can read the whole story here: https://daveverwer.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-tim...
Comment linking /blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-times
on “Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App Review Process”It was shutdown because it isn’t needed anymore. The review times are usually short and the quality of crowdsourced data is lower because of this. https://daveverwer.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-tim...
Comment linking /blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-times/
on “Saying goodbye to App Review Times”The actual shutdown blog post is linked from the page: https://daveverwer.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-tim... It would be nice to see a final graph of review times across the entire span the data was tracked. Luckily there's Archive.org to fulfill that curiosity in some way. Here's 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20181202101424/http://appreviewt...
Comment linking /blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-times/
on “Saying goodbye to App Review Times”