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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…
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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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…
Don't they still have the "multi reddits"? Just make a group for the smaller ones. Or a simple bookmark like reddit.com/r/smallsub1+smallsub2+smallsub3 etc. A bit work upfront but if you are annoyed it may very well be worth the time.
But ditch the hideous background. It may be just me, in which case ignore this, but I would expect more people to be put off by it.
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…
That way the RSS reader gives me the popular posts since last time.
And because I like HN for its discussion most of all, I coded a small WebExtension to have a button to the discussion of the current page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-comments/