Convert Facebook newsfeed into Reddit-style trending stories • Hacker News Board

danso wrote: post #16

the first premise of this app is flawed: > Around 50% of the updates by your friends are never seen by you Well yes...I suspect that's the same ratio of HN posts that are never read....because no one liked/upvoted them...and if thhe algorithms are right, that's a good thing. I'm not saying there isn't room for a new way to rank posts (in either FB or HN)...but it's a good thing to not see 100% of all the drek that ge…

I totally agree, that it's a good thing not to see 100% of posts from either HN or FB

But the updates that you miss are also some which have a lot of likes/shares/comments on FB. That's what we do, we don't dig out crap posts, but only those posts that outrank others.

So we have found out that you also miss those high ranked posts, almost as much as 50%

Re: Convert Facebook newsfeed into Reddit-style trending stories

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Post by mirzaumar » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:02 PM UTC

Its Great initiative

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Post by blackdivine » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:05 PM UTC

adilsaleem wrote: post #9

Interesting concept, the ranking is definitely different from that of Facebook, its cool to get a different view of the same feed

Yes, that's what we are striving for. Not only a different but a BETTER view

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Post by usaif » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:06 PM UTC

The app basically goes around the facebook EdgeRank algo and finds trending stories -- as opposed to only showing the stories from friends with whom you have a good edgeRank.

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Post by hackersocial2 » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:10 PM UTC

Facebook has an EdgeRank and you can bypass it? Wow -- didn't know this.

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Post by usaif » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:13 PM UTC

blackdivine wrote: post #24

danso wrote: post #16

the first premise of this app is flawed: > Around 50% of the updates by your friends are never seen by you Well yes...I suspect that's the same ratio of HN posts that are never read....because no one liked/upvoted them...and if thhe algorithms are right, that's a good thing. I'm not saying there isn't room for a new way to rank posts (in either FB or HN)...but it's a good thing to not see 100% of all the drek that ge…

I totally agree, that it's a good thing not to see 100% of posts from either HN or FB But the updates that you miss are also some which have a lot of likes/shares/comments on FB. That's what we do, we don't dig out crap posts, but only those posts that outrank others. So we have found out that you also miss those high ranked posts, almost as much as 50%

You need to take a look at Facebook's EdgeRank and how this circumvents it: http://mashable.com/2013/05/07/facebook-edgerank-infographic...

Re: Convert Facebook newsfeed into Reddit-style trending stories

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Post by Esifer » Wed, Aug 07, 2013, 1:22 PM UTC

Is it me or there is serious astroturfing going on in this thread? There are bunch of new accounts with no submissions, 1 comment and 1 karma posting one-liners like:"Awesome","Pretty cool", "Looks interesting"... Just check last 10 accounts on bottom of this thread.