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Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by SlowRobotAhead »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #19
SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The interests of HN participants is wide ranging. Sure, but I guess then I lament the lack of “approvable opinions”, or diversity of opinion. See the guy above downvoted into oblivion for wanting more tech articles on hackernews. I don’t love it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between here and Reddit including the bubble and brigading. Edit: well, way to prove my point about lack of “acceptable op…

I'm not against more tech articles on hacker news. The more articles, the better! But that is a separate issue from disliking certain articles that are submitted. To your point about the bubble, that is why I want more articles that are not tech focused. I don't care about your javascript framework, I don't care about why this datastore is better over that datastore, and I most definitely don't care about why I shoul…

Ha, yea I definitely don’t care. In this case I find it a curiosity of someone thinking ”I’m going to try and hide an opinion that people should have varying opinions!”. Without seeing any shortsightedness in themselves.

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by DKnoll »

dang wrote: post #18
DenisM wrote: post #17

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Oooh this link should totally go into the bar at the top of the screen. I am often anxious about missing some important piece of news and it makes me keep reading, feeding my HN "addiction". If I knew I could just come back later and check yesterday's new I would feel a lot less compelled to finish reading the front page before it expires.

If we did that, what should the label be?

  'Yesterday' for only a link to the previous day or 'Archive' for a list of past dates.

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by saganus »

dang wrote: post #18
DenisM wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oooh this link should totally go into the bar at the top of the screen. I am often anxious about missing some important piece of news and it makes me keep reading, feeding my HN "addiction". If I knew I could just come back later and check yesterday's new I would feel a lot less compelled to finish reading the front page before it expires.

If we did that, what should the label be?

I would also like to have this functionality readily available! :)

Maybe something as laconic as "front" would suffice?

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by yitchelle »

dang wrote: post #13
nathanaldensr wrote: post #4

Is it just me, or is HN becoming a dumping ground for worthless stories from internet "media" rags like Vox, The Atlantic, etc.? Are these outlets spamming their stories to HN, or are people simply karma-whoring?

The perception is common but inaccurate. HN has always had plenty of general-interest articles. HN's mandate is "anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity". As people's curiosities differ, so do their opinions about what's on topic. When you run into a streak of articles you don't like—and randomness guarantees such streaks—it starts to feel like HN has gone off the rails. The underlying system is more stable th…

Side topic....That link to show the front page on particular day is a pretty cool feature. Are they any others?

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by DenisM »

dang wrote: post #18
DenisM wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oooh this link should totally go into the bar at the top of the screen. I am often anxious about missing some important piece of news and it makes me keep reading, feeding my HN "addiction". If I knew I could just come back later and check yesterday's new I would feel a lot less compelled to finish reading the front page before it expires.

If we did that, what should the label be?

"Recently popular" or "popular yesterday" or just "yesterday", or "the day before".

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by dang »

DenisM wrote: post #25
dang wrote: post #18

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If we did that, what should the label be?

"Recently popular" or "popular yesterday" or just "yesterday", or "the day before".

Those are all too long. Perhaps 'recent'? But then the history goes back all the way, so that's a bit misleading.

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by dang »

saganus wrote: post #23
dang wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we did that, what should the label be?

I would also like to have this functionality readily available! :) Maybe something as laconic as "front" would suffice?

That's a good suggestion. But it might be confusing to have a link 'front' on the actual front page. You're there already.

Maybe 'old' or 'older'...I kind of like that by contrast with 'new'.

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by DenisM »

dang wrote: post #26
DenisM wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Recently popular" or "popular yesterday" or just "yesterday", or "the day before".

Those are all too long. Perhaps 'recent'? But then the history goes back all the way, so that's a bit misleading.

I'd prefer "recently" then. Recent works too.

Re: Five Black Fridays at the mall food court

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Post by yesenadam »

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #14
toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

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The interests of HN participants is wide ranging. I suggest the liberal use of the "hide" link for stories you're not interested in.

>The interests of HN participants is wide ranging. Sure, but I guess then I lament the lack of “approvable opinions”, or diversity of opinion. See the guy above downvoted into oblivion for wanting more tech articles on hackernews. I don’t love it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between here and Reddit including the bubble and brigading. Edit: well, way to prove my point about lack of “acceptable op…

From the guidelines (bottom of the page):

Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

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