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Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by lettergram »

lucb1e wrote: post #6

The thing I'm always missing on Reddit and HN is a sliding scale to tweak the time dropoff factor. For example I've been busy and check Reddit for the first time in four days. Ideally I'd see the most important stuff of the past 4 days, but the algorithm for "best" is not configurable and I roughly see what's hot today. Another example is a thoroughly boring lesson where you just keep hitting refresh and all the link…

I definitely want this, but their goal is to have you visit their sites daily. I highly doubt they have an incentive to build this.

Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by milcron »

iLoch wrote: post #18
lucb1e wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why not make it a sliding scale, where you can pick the past 17.3 minutes if you wish to do so?

Might be because it requires more complex database querying and/or is less cacheable.

Still... I'm unhappy with the current selection of offerings.

Reddit lets you see the top posts from the past: hour, day, week, month, year, all time.

Going from one month to a whole year is a huge jump! And personally I almost never look at top posts from the past hour.

I would love to see top posts from the past 3-months and 6-months.

Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by [deleted] »

lucb1e wrote: post #6

The thing I'm always missing on Reddit and HN is a sliding scale to tweak the time dropoff factor. For example I've been busy and check Reddit for the first time in four days. Ideally I'd see the most important stuff of the past 4 days, but the algorithm for "best" is not configurable and I roughly see what's hot today. Another example is a thoroughly boring lesson where you just keep hitting refresh and all the link…

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Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by nsrivast »

lucb1e wrote: post #13
emir_ wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's something that Digg did well. You could click "top today/24 hours/week/x days" and you would see the submissions with most diggs in 24 hours/week/days/etc.

But why not make it a sliding scale, where you can pick the past 17.3 minutes if you wish to do so?

Intuitively it seems like you could approximate by weighting/combining 15min and 30min caches. But also seems like a very esoteric problem!

Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by andersonmvd »

jschulenklopper wrote: post #17
andersonmvd wrote: post #5

Good job. Btw, there is a similar project here: http://reader.one/ (lol, just got a downvote)

Well, that Reader One (One Reader?) only seems to show the current top N posts of a couple of popular sites (Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Slashdot, Designer News, Lifehacker, ...). Is there a (hidden) feature to show the top posts on a daily, weekly or monthly level?

I don't think so. It's not my project either. It was featured months ago on product hunt and since then I didn't notice any update on the app.

Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by anotherevan »

rayalez wrote: post #24

Awesome! You should really create a daily/weekly/monthly newsletter and rss feeds, I think it would be really valuable. How did you compile the top medium posts? Do they have an API?

+1 for RSS feeds. I would definitely subscribe to weekly feeds for HN and Medium at the least.

Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by timqian »

rayalez wrote: post #24

Awesome! You should really create a daily/weekly/monthly newsletter and rss feeds, I think it would be really valuable. How did you compile the top medium posts? Do they have an API?

For Medium, I just fetch this link( medium.com/top-stories) and get top 10 links every day

Re: Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

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Post by Houshalter »

lucb1e wrote: post #6

The thing I'm always missing on Reddit and HN is a sliding scale to tweak the time dropoff factor. For example I've been busy and check Reddit for the first time in four days. Ideally I'd see the most important stuff of the past 4 days, but the algorithm for "best" is not configurable and I roughly see what's hot today. Another example is a thoroughly boring lesson where you just keep hitting refresh and all the link…

You could potentially do this with a client side extension. RES lets you filter posts that have certain keywords or other criteria. You could perhaps add a bit of code to make it filter posts that are older than x hours/days, and then browse /top like normal, but see only new posts.

I'm more concerned about mixing posts from different subreddits. When I browse my reddit.com/top feed (sorted by past week), I see only posts from the largest subreddits I subscribe to, mainly default subreddits. I see zero posts from the smaller subreddit's I subscribe to. This is especially bad because I find the smaller subreddit's the most interesting!

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