On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 03:23:15 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
> I find it impossible to even find the posts on HN. Within a few hours of them being posted by Andrei, they are buried 4-5 pages deep in the 'new' section with very few upvotes.

This search for DConf finds 5 of the 7 talks posted so far:

https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/past_month/prefix/0/dconf

None have any comments and most have practically no votes, so that explains why you didn't find them on there.  Two other talks were not labeled DConf for some reason, but only the Meyers talk, which wasn't about D, had any comments or much votes:

https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/past_month/prefix/0/meyers

> Last year I saw most of the talks (DConf13) on HN and r/programming. This year I find them only on this forum because the talks are not staying up on HN or r/p front pages for much time.

There has been some suggestion that they are being moderated down.  The Reddit postings get about a hundred votes, not sure if that's much on their site, as I don't use it.  If you're aware of this forum, not sure why you're going there anyway.

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 11:04:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> My connection is specified to 10 Mbps. But it depends on how large the files are. Most of the files from DConf are under around 350MB in HD quality. On the other hand, Andrei's talk from LangNext 2014 is 1.3 GB and 48 minutes long while the talk by Bjarne is 2.8 GB and 68 minutes long.

There are also 740 and 65.8 MB encodings of Andrei's talk that are perfectly usable.  I should know, as I downloaded the latter.  Same for Bjarne's talk, which I haven't downloaded.

> On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 11:04:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> My connection is specified to 10 Mbps. But it depends on how large the files are. Most of the files from DConf are under around 350MB in HD quality. On the other hand, Andrei's talk from LangNext 2014 is 1.3 GB and 48 minutes long while the talk by Bjarne is 2.8 GB and 68 minutes long.
>
> There are also 740 and 65.8 MB encodings of Andrei's talk that are perfectly usable.  I should know, as I downloaded the latter.
>  Same for Bjarne's talk, which I haven't downloaded.

Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about "HD quality."  I don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but yeah, file sizes will vary based on the type of HD resolution and encoding used.  I wouldn't call any hour-long video encoded into 350 MB "HD quality" though, as it's likely so compressed as to look muddy.

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 12:16:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about "HD quality."  I don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but

600 to 800 MB, not GB. :)

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 12:08:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> There has been some suggestion that they are being moderated down.  The Reddit postings get about a hundred votes, not sure if that's much on their site, as I don't use it.  If you're aware of this forum, not sure why you're going there anyway.

I'd say this is typical vote count for something that no one really cares about but is not considered crappy waste of time :) Top 20 of a months ends with ~700 points right now.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/25yw89/dash_an_opensource_game_engine_coded_in_d/ - this has gathered 250 being top voted entry about D lately.

I like how http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/274ugg/introducing_swift/ got 150 votes and http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/287r4i/smashing_swift/ got 250 :D

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 17:14:54 +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> I'd say this is typical vote count for something that no one really cares about but is not considered crappy waste of time :) Top 20 of a months ends with ~700 points right now.
> 
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/25yw89/dash_an_opensource_game_engine_coded_in_d/ - this has gathered 250 being top voted entry about D lately.
> 
> I like how http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/274ugg/introducing_swift/ got 150 votes and http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/287r4i/smashing_swift/ got 250 :D

Please note that Reddit adds a constant to up and down votes to thwart vote bots for the purposes of shadow banning them (they don't know if their vote counted or not), so a popular post might have more fake votes which inflates its numbers (the score is valid though).

--Ben

On 2014-06-19 14:16, Joakim wrote:

> Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about "HD quality."  I
> don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD
> recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but yeah, file sizes will
> vary based on the type of HD resolution and encoding used.  I wouldn't
> call any hour-long video encoded into 350 MB "HD quality" though, as
> it's likely so compressed as to look muddy.

If I recall correctly, this talk, uploaded to youtube by Dicebot, was around 350 MB, HD quality.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 21:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-06-19 14:16, Joakim wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about "HD quality."  I
>> don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD
>> recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but yeah, file sizes will
>> vary based on the type of HD resolution and encoding used.  I wouldn't
>> call any hour-long video encoded into 350 MB "HD quality" though, as
>> it's likely so compressed as to look muddy.
>
> If I recall correctly, this talk, uploaded to youtube by Dicebot, was around 350 MB, HD quality.

I always upload highest quality available on archive.org (634.3 MB for this one), YouTube re-encoding must be pretty good :)

On 6/19/14, 5:16 AM, Joakim wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 11:04:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> My connection is specified to 10 Mbps. But it depends on how large
>>> the files are. Most of the files from DConf are under around 350MB in
>>> HD quality. On the other hand, Andrei's talk from LangNext 2014 is
>>> 1.3 GB and 48 minutes long while the talk by Bjarne is 2.8 GB and 68
>>> minutes long.
>>
>> There are also 740 and 65.8 MB encodings of Andrei's talk that are
>> perfectly usable.  I should know, as I downloaded the latter.
>>  Same for Bjarne's talk, which I haven't downloaded.
>
> Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about "HD quality."  I
> don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD
> recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but yeah, file sizes will
> vary based on the type of HD resolution and encoding used.  I wouldn't
> call any hour-long video encoded into 350 MB "HD quality" though, as
> it's likely so compressed as to look muddy.

I use archive.org because it's the only I found that accepts full-resolution videos. -- Andrei

On 2014-06-20 23:48, Dicebot wrote:

> I always upload highest quality available on archive.org (634.3 MB for
> this one), YouTube re-encoding must be pretty good :)

I have no idea. I'm using the video downloader add-on in Firefox and I chose "HD mp4". But even if it was 634.3 MB it's still quite far form 2.8 GB which the talk by Bjarne was. It's only 20 minutes longer.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 22:04:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> I use archive.org because it's the only I found that accepts full-resolution videos. -- Andrei

A bit off-topic but I just found this while searching around archive.org with `subject:"D Programming"`

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_univacunivng1959_9057395

I love the fact that UNIVAC has more breakpoints available than the AVR32 devices we use at work!

Cheers,
ed