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YHackers: Click that "New" link

#1
Lately, I've noticed that some really good submissions aren't making it to the homepage.

Help bring back great articles -- once or twice a day, hit the new link at the top and see if there is anything worth upmodding!

It'll only take a minute and can really help what makes it to the homepage!

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#2
You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there.

I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

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#3

You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there. I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

or a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage.

  (def homepage (page
                  (top 10)
                  (newest 5)))

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#4

You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there. I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

or a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage. (def homepage (page (top 10) (newest 5)))

Now that I think about it, I am pretty sure something like this is possible with some greasemonkey/iframe magic

Still not a perfect solution as not everyone will install it - but a decent start eh?

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#5

You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there. I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

or a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage. (def homepage (page (top 10) (newest 5)))

Hey, I kinda like that idea!

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#6

You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there. I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

I like the reddit layout for this. At the top show the latest submission, granted the reddit thing is a little bit more complicated...but for HN you can get away with just showing the latest entry since there are so few new submissions

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#7
post #6

You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there. I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

I like the reddit layout for this. At the top show the latest submission, granted the reddit thing is a little bit more complicated...but for HN you can get away with just showing the latest entry since there are so few new submissions

I've seen that increasingly they have been streaming by

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#8
Perhaps some kind of incentive should be introduced?

One way could be to reward "early promoters", eg. give karma to the first users that up-vote a story, which later makes it to the front page or reaches a certain number of votes.

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#10
I don't ever promote because in the last month or so, when I am logged in to HN, each page load takes about 20-35 seconds.

That kind of performance keeps me logged out. Can someone shed some light on why it is so slow?

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