I'm curious about this too. Why not fix such an obvious issue? Even if the workaround isn't perfect, a more graceful failure mode would be preferable.
Hacker News gives "Unknown or expired link" Often when I click "More"
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Re: Hacker News gives "Unknown or expired link" Often when I click "More"
#12I've only been using HN a short while, and even though this issue is terribly annoying, I will stay for the interesting articles.
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#13Can we fix it?
Agreed! We're a bunch of hackers; publish on github and let us do our thing!
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#14It's annoying, but overalI don't mind it.
What I will kill for though is a simple "return to homepage" link...or better yet a timed redirect...on the expired page.
I often browse with my laptop on the coffee-table and a wireless mouse in my hand and it's a pain to have to reach forward and hit the backspace button (or go all the way up to the back button) AND click the link at the top again.
Seriously, this is something that gets me EVERY DAY, and it's frustrating.
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#15From what I recall, this is because the 'More' link is implemented using closures, which get garbage collected after a while. So if you take too long and a GC has happened in the meanwhile, the link will be broken.
Seriously? Having 'paging' tied to the GC in this way, or any way at all for that matter, does not sound like a good idea to me.
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#16Who's the programmer?
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#17I find this extremely irritating too.
The way I overcome it is by using "Read It Later" (http://www.readitlaterlist.com) to bookmark the interesting ones during my initial early morning scan.
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#18http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=163755 It's been an known issue for years.
It has been a known issue for years, yes, but it is getting worse. Presumably an increase in HN users is making it hit whatever threshold triggers the closure flush much more quickly than it used to.
These days the links often expire for me within a couple of minutes (YMMV depending upon how close to 'prime time' you read Hacker News).
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#19I've been noticing it more frequently as well. It has changed the way I use HN. Now, I quickly scan the first page and open interesting stories in tabs. Then I quickly click More and do the same. Wash, rinse, repeat two or three times depending on how busy I am. Another related issue: the expired page is remarkably stark and unfinished in comparison with the rest of the site. A minor nit, but since it shows up so oft…
I've often resorted to doing the same thing, but one problem with that is having to go back to the HN site to find the story to vote on it or comment. If a large number of people are pushing stories out to new tabs and ultimately ignoring the HN site after that, might it begin to affect the voting / ranking ?
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#20Can we fix it?
Agreed! We're a bunch of hackers; publish on github and let us do our thing!