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Most-favorited Hacker News posts
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#82The 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.
I've used this website since 2010 and just realized it was a feature. Maybe I'm just unobservant...
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN Comments is where the money is, not the stories themselves.
Comments have links that can be bookmarked too, under that timestamp, here's yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352253
I didn't know that comments can be bookmarked, that's a very unusual and neat feature
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#84Clicking on the timestamp to get to a comment so that I can favorite it, is not that intuitive either.
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#85I've occasionally looked at the favorites of highly active users (e.g. the list of karma leaders), and I've rarely found other users to have used the feature. As for me, I love using it – it has the right amount of friction such that I only end up using it for things that really are my favorite. I never look through my own upvote history. But whenever I need to find something that I remember being great, it's almost always in my favorites list.
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#86Honestly, 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.
On the site since 2012. Never noticed favorite until right now. Was surprised to see I had 3 favorites saved already which all must have been inadvertent clicks.
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#87Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#88The 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…
When I emailed mods to argue that the 'web' button should be restored[1], I was told by dang that he was actually considering removing 'hide' and 'favorite' too, because people rarely use those features. (I routinely use 'hide' but hardly ever use 'favorite'.)
Btw, 'favorite' may be lesser-known but it's certainly not hard to use.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hidden? They're in plain sight at the top of every article page.
I've used this website since 2010 and just realized it was a feature. Maybe I'm just unobservant...
It's relatively new. Before we used upvotes. Actually I still don't use it and keep using upvotes to favourite stories. I'm sorry for that and even worse: sometimes I upvote a story without following the link, just using the upvote as a "read later" bookmark because I found the title intriguing. Not so bad is when I upvote because there's a very interesting comment, even though the article itself is crappy.
Time ago someone posted a script that collects upvoted stories, but I can't find it now, it's in one of those upvoted stories O:) I guess I could make a conversion... but there are probably more than a thousand upvoted stories, I don't know.
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#90I was surprised to learn that I wasn't using the favorite feature!
I primarily browse HN through the Android app "Materialistic", which has a prominent "save" button at the top of each story.
However, those saved stories (~1.1/week) aren't favorited. Just saved locally.
Could this be part of why the feature seems so rarely used?