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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#191

Post by dang » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

fluffything wrote: post #4

asutekku wrote: post #2

Honestly, 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.

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.

> "The mobile app"

Which mobile app do you mean? HN has no app. But there are many third-party ones.

This is actually leading to some unanticipated problems. I wrote about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24335289.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by dang » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #146

danso wrote: post #85

I'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…

My only complaint with the favorite feature is that after favoriting, it takes you to your favorites page, versus an async request leaving you in place with the comment or post favorited.

That's on my list to change. It'll work like voting does.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by dmix » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:14 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

Much more interesting list, thank you.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#194

Post by dang » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:16 PM UTC

gorgoiler wrote: post #185

clicks favourite Maybe if the favouriteness could be transitive in some way? It could be called “favouriterank” and we could use it to index the web and surface the best pages when people search for things they are interested in?

The original intention of the feature was to try to derive some interesting signal from collective usage (that's why HN favorites are public) so that's an interesting suggestion.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#195

Post by dang » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:17 PM UTC

bottled_poe wrote: post #49

Possible selection bias here - How long has the favourite feature been available in its current form?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#196

Post by dang » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:17 PM UTC

lithos wrote: post #151

It's interesting how few favorites the articles actually have.

Those numbers are artificially low. If you want to compare the global list it's at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24355617.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#197

Post by dang » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:20 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #40

ekianjo wrote: post #36

Not very useful since almost no-one uses the favorite function on HN.

As evidenced by the top favorite among the 10,000 most active users having less than 100, when it's over four years old and has nearly 1700 upvotes.

"Most active" in this case means "posting the most comments". That's an interesting subset to look at but there's no reason it would be correlated with heavy use of the favorites feature.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#198

Post by foxdev » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #172

non-entity wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, click the timestamp on the comment and you'll see the full range of actions.

Yes, click the timestamp on the comment and you'll see the full range of actions. Very interesting, after the very active recent discussion about discoverability in user interfaces. It's like HN hired someone from the iOS design team to come up with the notion of "timestamp" = "favorite."

Putting more stuff under the permalink page linked from a timestamp is a web tradition that's older than HN. I don't know if it's good, but I do notice when I can't click a timestamp. Even Twitter and Facebook abide it.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#199

Post by baby » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

This needs links :( a gist perhaps?

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

#200

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:31 PM UTC

baby wrote: post #199

dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

This needs links :( a gist perhaps?

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