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New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

#111

Cool! I just found this feature yesterday or the day before, thanks to a post listing all the less documented HN features. Have you found the new placement to be affecting the site/database load at all?

May I ask you to link such thread. Am not able to find it on algolia

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

#112
post #18

I don't understand what I'm looking at, other than the option to view the page as it appeared a day, month, or year back... or a day in the future somehow?

Normal HN but time-bound: front page as it appeared on day x. Submissions ordered by time spent in the front page. I think the message on top takes too much space and would prefer something like m> y> or >> >>> or > > But that's just me.

I like these first two suggestions

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

#113
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…

Snapshot. Or Time Capsule. It’s really like a glimpse of the most important news on that specific day. More just feels like moving to the next page.

Really cool concept in my opinion; no matter what the name is.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

#116
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…

How about "prior"?

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

#117
post #111

Cool! I just found this feature yesterday or the day before, thanks to a post listing all the less documented HN features. Have you found the new placement to be affecting the site/database load at all?

May I ask you to link such thread. Am not able to find it on algolia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822

I searched Google for "site:news.ycombinator.com features" and limited the search to past week.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

#120
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…

How about "prior"?

Hmm. I like that! It's bookish but not pretentious.

Thinking.

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