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Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by polishTar »

HelloFellowDevs wrote: post #83

I'm actually really interested in this addition. I'm just going back to 'big' days, such as financial crash. When I started HS when I finished HS, when I started College. A few articles are interesting, it's definitely better than bumbling around Algolia. Edit: One great link is this one > Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook [1] [1]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=165…

>>no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years.

>That's got to be a joke.

Love it!

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by clhodapp »

dang wrote: post #3

Not new; just the link at the top is new. The hard part was what to call it. Since the point is to give people more to read, 'more' seemed right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512028 Edit: Oh, also: "more" fits with the "More" links you see at the bottom of the front page and other places, clicking which takes you back to previous posts. Edit 2: Ok, you guys have…

Personally, I would call it "time" as a dual-meaning single word that references both the ability to go to a specific day and the fact that it is computed based on time spent (and maybe also "go here if you find yourself with some extra time to sink in").

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by nmstoker »

dang wrote: post #5
chmaynard wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Just a reminder, don't forget to add a "hide" button under each post. Some of us use "hide" a lot. :)

Ok, added.

BTW: If there was something to reduce accidental hits on hide and flag, that would be great.

On mobile touch screens, being right under the main links they can get hit a surprising number of times and then you've got to go fumble around to undo it.

Maybe a "comfortable" setting a la Gmail?

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by dang »

faitswulff wrote: post #90
dang wrote: post #3

Not new; just the link at the top is new. The hard part was what to call it. Since the point is to give people more to read, 'more' seemed right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512028 Edit: Oh, also: "more" fits with the "More" links you see at the bottom of the front page and other places, clicking which takes you back to previous posts. Edit 2: Ok, you guys have…

Are new features still implemented in Arc?

Always.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by dang »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #14
dang wrote: post #3

Not new; just the link at the top is new. The hard part was what to call it. Since the point is to give people more to read, 'more' seemed right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512028 Edit: Oh, also: "more" fits with the "More" links you see at the bottom of the front page and other places, clicking which takes you back to previous posts. Edit 2: Ok, you guys have…

Shouldn't the URL slug also be "more", then?

/front seems like the right URL for what's there. But we can't put a 'front' link on the front page.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by dang »

MilnerRoute wrote: post #11

I like it. It seems to surface more unusually good stories -- but is that a problem? Won't the list end up dominated by a handful of winner-take-all stories, lingering throughout the entire day at the top of the list, rather than an ongoing series of slightly-less-popular stories popping in and out? If there's always going to be better stories with the "sorted by time spent" view, does that create a danger that every…

It's just a list of past front pages. Once each day is over, its front page never changes. Does that answer your question?

(Well, it's not exactly a list of past front pages, because what appears on /front was never the actual front page at any point. Since that's always changing, we take a kind of average.)

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by tedmiston »

miki123211 wrote: post #51
tedmiston wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rendered screenshots are a super nice feature. I have a few dozen HN apps (yours included) saved in this Pinboard collection for those looking for more alternative clients. https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/

I wish there was a hn viewer integrated with Outline. something like, for each new article on front, check whether it can be outlined and, if it can, just display it without redirecting to the original site. That would protect against slashdotted sites, paywalls, annoying gdpr consent pop ups, sorry but we don't like europe pages, all kinds of tracking and js heavy websites (especially if you're on i.e. Lynx) etc. Th…

Both of those ideas sound awesome.

I am a heavy Instapaper user but really liking Outline / Hypothesis lately.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by dang »

davidjnelson wrote: post #88

This is cool, thank you! Would “days” be a good name as it allows you to browse a set of days? It doesn’t seem like posts you’ve hidden from the front page are reflected here. I guess they don’t really need to be since this is more archival in nature.

Hmm, maybe they should be. I'll make a note to look at that.
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