How often do you click through on the "More" link from the Front Page and from "Newest"?
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Poll: Do you ever click through on HN?
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#2What "more link" ?
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#3Due to the algorithm used, I've tended to find the "More" pages to be a mixed bag. If someone was on the front page a few hours ago, say, it's not necessarily even going to be on the 2nd or 3rd page now. And, often, the 2nd and 3rd pages have items with just 2 or 3 upvotes but that won't ever make it to the front page. So I use http://hackerslide.com/ instead to just skip back a few "front pages" to catch up with what I missed instead.
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#4I have, when really bored, used the More link on 'new' but don't recall ever doing it on the front page. I have no idea why.
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#5What "more link" ?
I guess that is the "More" link at the bottom of the newest or front page.
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#6Well, by going on Hacker News quite often you don't really need the "More" link.
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#7I never visit the HN homepage. I drink from the firehose (RSS feed) and scan topics, digging in to interesting articles based on the title only. I wish there was a way to see the score for the articles from within the feed and have it update to within a 30 minute window.
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#8I use RSS feed so I almost never click in the links of the homepage... I only use the links when I add something to HN..
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#9Due to the algorithm used, I've tended to find the "More" pages to be a mixed bag. If someone was on the front page a few hours ago, say, it's not necessarily even going to be on the 2nd or 3rd page now. And, often, the 2nd and 3rd pages have items with just 2 or 3 upvotes but that won't ever make it to the front page. So I use http://hackerslide.com/ instead to just skip back a few "front pages" to catch up with wha…
I haven't visited hackerslide in a while. So happy to see it's current iteration. Love how useful it is! (0.02)++
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#10I also am subscribed to the RSS feed, and scan based on topics. Unfortunately, some titles are just not very informative or well-written. I wish titles were more descriptive.
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