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"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
If, for example, I find something surprising or incredible in the article, I'll often switch to the comments to see if it was mentioned or debunked, before continuing.
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In fact, I wish the link in my google gadget went to the comments page first and not the submitted link.
There have been a few people who have created Yahoo pipes which do just that; this is the only link I can seem to come up with, but should do what you want: http://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews
At other times I wished a side-by-side option was available on the front page - think of the front page as a table-of-contents, then have a frame on the right where the article (or comments) can be displayed - would save a lot of reloads, as I tend to do a session of (look at items -> look at article 1 -> back to items -> article 4 etc etc)
Maybe i should just do a gresemonkey script or something that behaves this way ...
"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
I would of loved to add comments in there, but there is no way of getting them barring html scrapping. HN Feature Request: RSS feed for comments of an item.
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Well I must be a weirdo then, I prefer to at the very least glance at the source before seeing opinions on the source. I do check the comments immediately afterwards because some of them are pure gold! :)
You're not alone. I scan the list of top stories, open new tabs in my browser alternating between source and comments, as many as 10 at a time. I always scan the source first for context but, like others here, generally find that the comments are more interesting.