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Poll: How often do you visit HN?

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Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#51
Weekdays: I check it at most 3 times when I am at work, and when I finally get home I load a tab and I check it at least 80-100 times till I sleep! Weekend: A constantly loaded tab that I check 5-10 per home hour.

Since day could be the whole 24h thing I naturally voted for 100+..sorry 10+

Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#52
I can't help but think that Hacker News has made several design decisions that are geared specifically to keep people coming back over and over and over again.

Some that come to mind are not notifying you when someone replies to you, not having feeds for comments on a story, and not having a feeds for the beststories or bestcomments pages.

Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#54
post #5

It needs an option for "Way too much." Unless that's meant to be covered by 10+ times a day. It's time well spent though.

I don't see how HN 10 times a day could be considered time well spent. That's a LOT of interruptions. [disclosure: I picked 5-10 times a day]

It would be a lot if everytime you are reading articles and comments, I can say I probably check hacker news more than 10 times and most of the time it is just skimming for articles that sound interesting to me, usually I only end up reading a few articles/comment threads a day.

Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#56
Wow. As of 9:12 PM Pacific time on 1/10/11, the '5-10 times a day' and '1-5 times a day' categories both have 247 points. Almost every time I've checked, they've been with in a few points of each other. For such a huge sample size, this is a surprise to me.

Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#57
post #5

It needs an option for "Way too much." Unless that's meant to be covered by 10+ times a day. It's time well spent though.

Tell me about it. Was on a date last Friday and couldn't resist checking it when my lady friend checked her phone for the time. I showed her what I was reading and she was floored. Her attitude became far more amiable since she believed I was going to be the next Julian Assange. Thank you pg!

P.S. As a kid, I always dreamed of a secret online community where the world's smartest people gathered to discuss highly relevant and interesting subjects. When I saw Eliezer Yudkowsky reply to a post by Paul Buchheit, I knew I had found the promised land.

P.P.S. We need a poll that asks how many of us quit our jobs due to pg's work and/or HN. You'd have at least one vote from me :)

Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#58

Wow. As of 9:12 PM Pacific time on 1/10/11, the ' 5-10 times a day ' and ' 1-5 times a day ' categories both have 247 points. Almost every time I've checked, they've been with in a few points of each other. For such a huge sample size, this is a surprise to me.

Why is that surprising? Those options have the same frequency.

Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#59
What I really want is to get the data from the server and compare the poll response with the actual number for each user. As in, "you reported that you check 1-5 times, but you average 12.7 on work days."

Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

#60

Wow. As of 9:12 PM Pacific time on 1/10/11, the ' 5-10 times a day ' and ' 1-5 times a day ' categories both have 247 points. Almost every time I've checked, they've been with in a few points of each other. For such a huge sample size, this is a surprise to me.

Why is that surprising? Those options have the same frequency.

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