Isn't this poll going to be extremely biased towards people reading it on the main site, since that's the only place you can comment? :)
The RSS feed users can just click the link and post comments as well.
Poll: How do you consume HN?
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#22I only see stories over 100 points via: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100
...except if I get bored on a Friday and look at new topics, which explains how I saw this link in the first place...
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's significant or interesting about the ordering of stories on the frontpage? I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments). What I gain with Reader is the ability to mark all as read and therefore the ability to see what's new since the last time I checked.
If there was no significance to the frontpage it wouldn't exist. It's doing curating for you, a hint at what stories to look at, and all without becoming yet another ever-growing set of things to catch up on if you don't return for a few days. "I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments)" If you browse comments a lot you end up spending almost all your…
I see. I guess most people are using HN differently than me. I'm mostly interested in the articles themselves and I often come across items that have no upvotes and no comments but are totally what I want to read. I'm only interested in comments if the article itself has caught my eye. So the total number of comments and the group curating of the front page doesn't do much for me.
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#24Wow. A sobering reminder to me that even for a tech-savvy readership, only about ten percent are using RSS. Maybe this warrants another survey on why people don't use RSS.
I use RSS a lot but I wouldn't use it for HN. You miss out on the ordering of stories on the frontpage and the browsing of comments.
the rss feed works well for me in google reader. It allows me to keep track of what I've read and what I haven't.
If it seems like the comments might be interesting I just click the 'comments' link.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
If there was no significance to the frontpage it wouldn't exist. It's doing curating for you, a hint at what stories to look at, and all without becoming yet another ever-growing set of things to catch up on if you don't return for a few days. "I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments)" If you browse comments a lot you end up spending almost all your…
I see. I guess most people are using HN differently than me. I'm mostly interested in the articles themselves and I often come across items that have no upvotes and no comments but are totally what I want to read. I'm only interested in comments if the article itself has caught my eye. So the total number of comments and the group curating of the front page doesn't do much for me.
That's really interesting. I'd love to chat more about how you find items with no upvotes or comments that you want to read. (email in profile)
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#26hckrnews.com for me.
Yes. The only way I'm able to spend a reasonable about of time on here.
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#27I would like to know how to subscribe RSS feeds of the comments of the individual stories (not all comments, but comments on the threads like this one).
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#28Up'd rss feed, but I do it via the Newsfox plug-in in FF.
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#29Wow. A sobering reminder to me that even for a tech-savvy readership, only about ten percent are using RSS. Maybe this warrants another survey on why people don't use RSS.
I use RSS a lot but I wouldn't use it for HN. You miss out on the ordering of stories on the frontpage and the browsing of comments.
I click through for comments, and find the front-page ordering pretty awful (people tend to vote up the less technical articles more, probably since there's a lower barrier to entry; also, articles in the same genre as the recent influx of stories about Color/etc., which I couldn't care less about, tend to get voted up a lot). And as someone else mentioned, it doesn't mark stories as read, which is a Big Deal for me.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use RSS a lot but I wouldn't use it for HN. You miss out on the ordering of stories on the frontpage and the browsing of comments.
I click through for comments, and find the front-page ordering pretty awful (people tend to vote up the less technical articles more, probably since there's a lower barrier to entry; also, articles in the same genre as the recent influx of stories about Color/etc., which I couldn't care less about, tend to get voted up a lot). And as someone else mentioned, it doesn't mark stories as read, which is a Big Deal for me.
Yeah makes sense. It doesn't bother you, clicking back and forth?