Tell HN: There is a highlights page on HN

You can always bookmark that.

I see "classic" as more of a check to see if HN is seeing substantial drift from what its early cohort's interests are. Largely ... it seems to jibe reasonably well with the main site.

Another interesting variant is to hit Algolia with a blank search and a date-range set. What you'll get are top-voted comments for that period (past day, week, month, year, or custom interval). I occasionally use that to see if I've missed anything particularly good recently, or to filter what I see as excessive cruft.

So, e.g., top votes past month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...>

"Top voted" need not mean "best" Because Reasons, but it's an interesting and different slice of the site.

There are different things I get out of sports socially.

Going to a game (could be any sport because I have a project to do sports photography for every team at my Uni) I relish it when the away team has a big tailgate, when they bring a raucous crowd, when I feel like I have to whoop it up for the home team to compete with them. I think it is is a healthy tribalism as I know in my heart I have no malice towards them in fact I am glad they came.

Soccer games have a different aspect because the crowd that shows up is very diverse: I hear a lot of languages spoken that are not English because foreign students come, a lot of youth soccer players from elementary school to high school come and boy they understand the game well and are following it closely and spectating actively but there are also staffers who themselves played sports (say field hockey) when they were young who brought along children who weren’t so interest in the game and end up leaving at the half.

The feeling I get there is that we are all part of a soccer network that goes all the way down to pickup games and youth leagues and goes up, up, up to MLS and the Premier League and the national teams that go to the world cup so my solidarity is not just to my school but to the whole world of soccer.

Personally I am not so into sports talk about who I think is better or who is going to win except in those cases where one team or player is on a different leve at a particular time. If I want to get into a knock-down drag-out, I’d rather get into a discussion about controversial rule changes or the impact of gambling on sport. Myself my interest in sports has spiked lately thanks to the influence of my RSS reader and my photography so it’s also an area where I have a lot to learn from not just the experts but other fanns.

As if I'm not already spending too much time reading HN.