Twice a year, typically to see how fast my own submission is sinking into obscurity.
Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
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Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#72I used to check a few times per month, but recently the number of submissions went through the roof, which makes me less likely to check.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#73I have showdead enabled and refresh /newest probably 40 to 50 times per hour. I vouch and upvote things I think people might have interesting discussions about. I flag slop, advertising and anything that goes against the guidelines. This is the only site I log in to every day for several reasons. I sometimes take a break and play a video game, watch a movie or go for a walk. I filter out karma numbers using uBlock.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#74I read it weekly or so and have showdead on. It would be nice to have multiple levels of dead. I want to see what’s unpopular or questionable in new, not the dating site spam. I nominate showhell as a new flag and setting for spam.
I’ve found some interesting sites from new before they were popular and started subscribing to them. This is the selfish benefit that keeps me going. It also feels good to be the first upvote on something that ends up hitting the front page.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#75Whenever you submit a link, you get dropped on /new, so that's when I look at it.
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#76Earlier 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.
To be fair, links at the top of the site header aren't exactly hidden.
I've seen comments where people haven't noticed for years that the site has a footer with links as well. The mods added thread folding and people just never even bothered to try clicking the new link to see what it did, so they never realized that was possible and kept asking for the feature. All of this "hidden" functionality is literally just a link or two away, but it might as well be buried under desert sand as far as this community is concerned.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I see as a "help" url near the textarea.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#78Offtopic: I posted a Show HN and it was instantly flagged. I don't know what I did wrong :(
It's a bot.
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#79~monthly, when I realized I've exhausted all the front page posts I care about, but have not yet realized I should just do something better with my life
Re: Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
#80Sometimes I miss when aiming for the Y logo to refresh the main page or Threads to read replies. Does that count?