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Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by happytoexplain »

zamadatix wrote: post #29
happytoexplain wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh? Like what? I am actually ignorant here.

Edit: Neat. Thanks, all.

Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by saratogacx »

I use /active more then /newest because I often am looking for a discussion already happening so I can learn from others.

I feel that new is wasted on me because I'm not confident that my own thoughts on what's interesting and worth front page promotion is well... interesting to the community.

Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by clifflocked »

happytoexplain wrote: post #31
zamadatix wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is infamous for having extra "hidden" functionality you're just supposed to know exists if you want to use/unlock it.

Oh? Like what? I am actually ignorant here. Edit: Neat. Thanks, all.

See /active

Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by Confiks »

happytoexplain wrote: post #31
zamadatix wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is infamous for having extra "hidden" functionality you're just supposed to know exists if you want to use/unlock it.

Oh? Like what? I am actually ignorant here. Edit: Neat. Thanks, all.

The "Lists" page, lists most of such 'hidden' functionality: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (which itself is linked in the footer).

Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by zamadatix »

happytoexplain wrote: post #31
zamadatix wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is infamous for having extra "hidden" functionality you're just supposed to know exists if you want to use/unlock it.

Oh? Like what? I am actually ignorant here. Edit: Neat. Thanks, all.

Downvoting/flagging kind of just "appear" for most before they get a chance to read about it being a thing.

Even when someone unlocks flagging they often don't know you can flag comments instead of just downvote them because you have to load the direct link (most easily, the timestamp link) to see it.

I actually don't remember how you're supposed to know about https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc. I'm pretty sure it's not linked on the main page and the input box doesn't make mention of it.

There are some lists out there (probably easiest to just ask AI or check the lists page) of special URLs like /bestcomments or /classic. There are also some query paramters available for certain URLs. Keep in mind the lists page is not exhaustive, e.g. /over

Many never poke around their settings enough to understand showdead or noprocrast exist/how they work.

I bet a good number learned that polls were a thing from this post :D.

That's what comes to mind but it can be hard to remember some of the things because you get ao used to them being there personally (I'm continually surprised users often reach the karma threshold for downvoting before understanding they can flag/vouch comments). I'm sure others can fill in some good ones :).

Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by ryandrake »

saratogacx wrote: post #32

I use /active more then /newest because I often am looking for a discussion already happening so I can learn from others. I feel that new is wasted on me because I'm not confident that my own thoughts on what's interesting and worth front page promotion is well... interesting to the community.

Yea, /active is HN's secret, killer app. HN's default ranking algorithm often penalizes stories that "get too much activity" which means that if you aren't one of those guys who refreshes the main page every 5 minutes, you're going to miss a lot of newsworthy articles that happen to get many comments. I'd recommend all HN readers visit /active once at the end of the day to see what The Algorithm hid from the front page.

Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

I’ve almost entirely moved to /newest because there’s almost no point in discussion anymore

I still comment on main threads out of habit but im probably 10% as active as a decade ago once a top comment gets locked into a thread nothing else matters and there’s no discussion around the edges

All the “AI” debates are played out and boring with basically anyone still excited about anything related to AI treated poorly by people who have basically no expertise in it but mad capitalist automation came for their job

Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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Post by Jtsummers »

zamadatix wrote: post #35
happytoexplain wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh? Like what? I am actually ignorant here. Edit: Neat. Thanks, all.

Downvoting/flagging kind of just "appear" for most before they get a chance to read about it being a thing. Even when someone unlocks flagging they often don't know you can flag comments instead of just downvote them because you have to load the direct link (most easily, the timestamp link) to see it. I actually don't remember how you're supposed to know about https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc . I'm pretty sure…

> I actually don't remember how you're supposed to know about https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc. I'm pretty sure it's not linked on the main page and the input box doesn't make mention of it.

It's in the FAQ, linked at the bottom of (almost) every page along with the guidelines.

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