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I 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.
I 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. What inspired this question?
It never made it to the Front page, but has been close to the top of the second front page, and even after falling off the "New" page it still garnered the occasional vote. That suggested that people either were clicking through, or had marked it as "Read Later" and then did so.
I wondered how many people saw it at all, and hence the question.
What "more link" ?
I 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. What inspired this question?
To be honest, I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364399 It never made it to the Front page, but has been close to the top of the second front page, and even after falling off the "New" page it still garnered the occasional vote. That suggested that people either were clicking through, or had marked it as "Read Later" and then did so. I wondered how many people saw it at all, and hence the question.
Interesting post though: I think there was a similar discussion in Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (Good book).
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To be honest, I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364399 It never made it to the Front page, but has been close to the top of the second front page, and even after falling off the "New" page it still garnered the occasional vote. That suggested that people either were clicking through, or had marked it as "Read Later" and then did so. I wondered how many people saw it at all, and hence the question.
Ah, if that's the case, then it never appeared in my RSS feed. I'm not sure how the RSS feed is composed (i.e. which submissions show up in it), but perhaps it's more selective than I'd thought. (I was already getting a hundred links each day!) Interesting post though: I think there was a similar discussion in Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (Good book).
> Ah, if that's the case, then it never appeared
> in my RSS feed
> there was a similar discussion in
> Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
I 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.
One more drinking from the firehose here... just come to the "actual" site to read whatever comments the other readers left. I normally enjoy 49% the articles linked and 51% the opinion of the fellow readers here at HN!
My girlfriend showed me how she was doing it once and I thought it was really quite revolutionary. She's since moved on to using a bunch of iPad RSS reader apps, but I'm stuck in the iGoogle "stone age" I just love it.
All that said, I pretty frequently click through to load the hackernews page though.
