I go to newest when I want to check if there is an outage with GitHub or AWS or something
Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
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#22Sometimes I want to see what kinds of submissions are dead and one minute old.
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#23I don’t know if this is the data point you’d like, but I forget that it exists. I forget to such a point that I’m going to check out newest now because it seems like a page I should include every visit here.
So my answer is ‘never’ but I’m working on it. I keep showdead turned on.
Edit - I have been making a big mistake here for a long time. Newest is a heck of a good page and I need to make visiting it into a habit. Thanks for posting this poll; I wouldn’t have remembered that I forgot about a feature without this.
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#24Only when I post, because I’m superstitious that if I don’t upvote new posts no one is gonna upvote mine.
It doesn’t work.
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#25I consume the RSS firehose exclusively, so I guess the answer is "constantly". I have no idea which submissions are highly voted.
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#26I only have "new" here, and not "newest". Am I missing something?
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#27I only have "new" here, and not "newest". Am I missing something?
The URL is:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newestRe: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#28I only have "new" here, and not "newest". Am I missing something?
The URL is /newest.
I'm a little confused by there being multiple people in the comments who are confused by this. They're basically the same word, and even if they weren't, you only have to look at the URL bar to see "newest". I know it's an unimportant phenomenon for me to be commenting on, but it strikes me as unusual.
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#29I only have "new" here, and not "newest". Am I missing something?
The URL is /newest. I'm a little confused by there being multiple people in the comments who are confused by this. They're basically the same word, and even if they weren't, you only have to look at the URL bar to see "newest". I know it's an unimportant phenomenon for me to be commenting on, but it strikes me as unusual.
HN is infamous for having extra "hidden" functionality you're just supposed to know exists if you want to use/unlock it.
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#30I only have "new" here, and not "newest". Am I missing something?
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