The recents list on my browser got changed to newest so I end up checking it by accident.
Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
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#52For me, it's a tripwrire. If I'm ever feeling desperate enough for new content that I'm checking the "newest" page of Hacker News, that means I need to put down my phone and reset myself.
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#53I have a feeling that new was much slower moving five years ago. Now if I check new everything is from the last 15-20 minutes.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#54I wonder if it was ever considered to page size the first new page proportional to the current submission rate.
The idea is that with a fixed page size a new submission would get evicted off the first page quicker and would hence suffer a shorter exposure. One way to counteract that is to increase the aperture.
This of course assumes that people would scroll to the bottom and would do that more often than navigating to the next page.
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#55Reddit had a term for people who read the new page -- the knights of new. The small group of people who make the site work by traipsing through the sludge that is the new page, finding the gems within. We did a lot of experiments to try and get more people to look at the new page or new content. One was placing one new item at the top of your home page and changing that every couple of minutes. The other was the "ris…
On Reddit I often sort by new for comments (which I know isn't the same as new topics), especially on thoughts over whatever thing I'm looking up. Does Hackernews have that ability or am I being blind?
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#56For me, it's a tripwrire. If I'm ever feeling desperate enough for new content that I'm checking the "newest" page of Hacker News, that means I need to put down my phone and reset myself.
Same
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#57I have 3 tabs pinned: homepage, active, newest
I then use https://oj-hn.com to do all my navigation via keyboard.
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#58Reddit had a term for people who read the new page -- the knights of new. The small group of people who make the site work by traipsing through the sludge that is the new page, finding the gems within. We did a lot of experiments to try and get more people to look at the new page or new content. One was placing one new item at the top of your home page and changing that every couple of minutes. The other was the "ris…
> We did a lot of experiments to try and get more people to look at the new page or new content
Is that what "best" sort is doing when browsing a specific subreddit? Occasionally I'll notice some crappy 1 minute old post on my feed that's out of place and realize the sorting was reset to "best" instead of "hot" instead
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#59A year or so ago, I started clicking “new” instead of the logo, which I usually click to get to the front page. I had no idea what was going on and just assumed HN had changed the algorithm and suddenly become much more active.
I think it took me between one and two weeks to realize I wasn’t actually clicking the front page.
Not the smartest sheep.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#60Reddit had a term for people who read the new page -- the knights of new. The small group of people who make the site work by traipsing through the sludge that is the new page, finding the gems within. We did a lot of experiments to try and get more people to look at the new page or new content. One was placing one new item at the top of your home page and changing that every couple of minutes. The other was the "ris…
> We did a lot of experiments to try and get more people to look at the new page or new content Is that what "best" sort is doing when browsing a specific subreddit? Occasionally I'll notice some crappy 1 minute old post on my feed that's out of place and realize the sorting was reset to "best" instead of "hot" instead
You can also just sort by "new" i.e. chronologically.