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Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by forgotmypw »

pmoriarty wrote: post #37

How many people actually look at the front page rather than just use the RSS feed? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

I largely browse using the front page. I am not looking to keep up with every article ever, I just look for a few interesting things to read, then close it and move on with my day.

I also find the design and web layout to be very pleasing.

My RSS reading habits never recovered from GR's demise... but maybe one of these days.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by badfrog »

pmoriarty wrote: post #37

How many people actually look at the front page rather than just use the RSS feed? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

> How many people actually look at the front page rather than just use the RSS feed?

What do you use for RSS? After Google Reader shut down, I assumed very few people continued using RSS.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by andirk »

eterps wrote: post #22

Only now I realized that I use https://hckrnews.com for so many years that I have come to think of it as the actual HN front page. It's hard to imagine something better.

Do you mean that we're not all typings news.ycombinator.com ? That's kind of tripping me out. And where is this new 'more' button?

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by wilkystyle »

eterps wrote: post #22

Only now I realized that I use https://hckrnews.com for so many years that I have come to think of it as the actual HN front page. It's hard to imagine something better.

Yes! I love https://hckrnews.com, and the ability to come back later in the day and catch up on anything that was on the front page, and not worry about missing out.

I also echo the sentiment of being used to that site as the HN homepage.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

dang wrote: post #19
scott_s wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the name question, perhaps: previously. As in when tv shows continuing a story was novel, and they'd do a "Previously, on Buffy..."

I like it, except that it's too long.

What about just 'recent'?

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by pmoriarty »

badfrog wrote: post #42
pmoriarty wrote: post #37

How many people actually look at the front page rather than just use the RSS feed? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

> How many people actually look at the front page rather than just use the RSS feed? What do you use for RSS? After Google Reader shut down, I assumed very few people continued using RSS.

I use Newsboat[1][2], a standalone RSS reader that I use in the terminal. It's an actively developed fork of Newbeuter.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by meesterdude »

dang wrote: post #3

Not new; just the link at the top is new. The hard part was what to call it. Since the point is to give people more to read, 'more' seemed right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512028 Edit: Oh, also: "more" fits with the "More" links you see at the bottom of the front page and other places, clicking which takes you back to previous posts. Edit 2: Ok, you guys have…

would "browse" be a poor description? given the functionality to move back/forward.
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