I find it amusing that the #19 on this is flagged dead.
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#62The fact that favorites are a hidden feature and hard to use made me think the quality of the curation signal would be even better. Also the fact the HackerNews API, Angolia don't expose this feature made it even more interesting to aggregate. Hope you like it and as it was a pain gathering the data, I put it in an observable notebook so hopefully we don't need to gather that dataset again for a while. The learning r…
Hidden? They're in plain sight at the top of every article page.
See other comments. Maybe higher friction would be a better phrase
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#63Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.
Maybe people tend to favorite different things. I favorite things from time to time, but don't recall favoriting anything in this list.
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#64Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.
Wow. Abismal number. I dreamt a side project of using that info to estimate “taste distance” between users and see what personalized recommendations come out of it, but I dont think it would work with those numbers.
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#65The fact that favorites are a hidden feature and hard to use made me think the quality of the curation signal would be even better. Also the fact the HackerNews API, Angolia don't expose this feature made it even more interesting to aggregate. Hope you like it and as it was a pain gathering the data, I put it in an observable notebook so hopefully we don't need to gather that dataset again for a while. The learning r…
How did you get the list of HN users to scrape favorites from?
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#66I think this list is more useful:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use the mobile app and its horrible. I can't often save comments, i can't see my comment threads, ... There are probably many HN features nobody knows about because the UI doesn't expose them.
Why are you not using the website? It works really well on mobile and loads almost instantly. I’ve never seen a reason to use app for HN.
It works fine, but the font is teeny tiny.
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#68The fact that favorites are a hidden feature and hard to use made me think the quality of the curation signal would be even better. Also the fact the HackerNews API, Angolia don't expose this feature made it even more interesting to aggregate. Hope you like it and as it was a pain gathering the data, I put it in an observable notebook so hopefully we don't need to gather that dataset again for a while. The learning r…
Hidden? They're in plain sight at the top of every article page.
HN's minimalist UI designed to make elements unobtrusive and sometimes difficult to see, and new features being mentioned only in a single thread means most users will just not notice. It also doesn't help that HN is a conservative culture generally antagonistic towards any change to the layout, and people wouldn't want to notice those changes to begin with.
I've seen people not notice thread folding or the hide feature despite those also being "in plain sight." People don't know threads can span multiple pages - dang has to go out of his way to point that out because despite the UI being exactly the same as on the list pages, a "more" link at the bottom of the page, no one ever reads past the first thirty links on those pages to begin with.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you not using the website? It works really well on mobile and loads almost instantly. I’ve never seen a reason to use app for HN.
It works fine, but the font is teeny tiny.
I can reliably zoom in the text here on my Pinephone. No left/right scrolling is ever required.
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#70I find it amusing that the #19 on this is flagged dead.
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