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Ask HN: Does anyone read posts below the first 10 on the homepage of HN?
I have noticed that I very rarely read posts that are below top 10 on a homepage, I wonder how many people like me are there.
- greenyoda 11y agoThere are people (like me) who read articles on the "new" page, long before they ever get anywhere close to the front page (homepage). Otherwise, these articles would never get to the front page (since to get to the front page, they have to receive a significant number of upvotes).
- omginternets 11y agoI definitely read the front page more often, but when I'm procrastinating, I can easily make it to page 5.
- ceequof 11y agoIf I run out of stuff on the front page, then I go to /newest
- mindcrime 11y agoYep, I'll sometimes browse to page 3 or 4, maybe more if I'm really bored. And I routinely check the /newest page and upvote the submissions there.
- philrea 11y agoYeah I do. Actually, I always do. Your question has brought the realization that, though not intentional, if I'm at HN its because that is the thing I have decided to do... On that note, I have no choice but to tip my hat to HN. Way to go, you have successfully attracted a consumer to your service and then kept him there for way longer than they had consciously intended. The Silicon Valley business model implemented successfully by the business that fuels it... damnit, now I feel like a sucker...
- mod 11y agoI tend to stick mostly to the front page, but I think it's because I'm here more for the comments than the articles, usually. The lower-ranked stuff tends to have little or no discussion.
- 11thEarlOfMar 11y agoI sometimes wonder if the front page contents arrive in phases. Perhaps readers who are interested in topics that are there 'now' will become engaged and not make it to the 'new' posts to up-vote to the front page. Readers who are not interested in what is there 'now' are likely to head to 'new' and find posts that interest them, which are likely different topics than what is on the front page 'now'. So the topics may phase through in that manner. 'nough navel gazing. Back to work...
- joehilton 11y agoI usually read through a couple pages worth, but I'm usually only reading the asks and shows. I'll scan the headlines of a few articles, but they're submitted from so many sources that it's hard to sort through for something I want to drill down on.
- qu4z-2 11y agoYou're currently at #75 for me, and I'm replying, so...
- kamphey 11y agoYes. It's a wonderful place to go deep deep into. I usually open a bunch of stuff to read in tabs and dig and dig and dig and then read and read and read.
- piyushmakhija 11y agoI use Hooks app(http://www.gethooksapp.com/ http://www.gethooksapp.com/) to get notified about popular posts. We can set a minimum number of upvotes(50/100/200/500) on the posts before being notified.
- tzs 11y agoI believe that I do. I don't know exactly what the relationship of what I read is to the home page because I use an RSS reader.
- DrNuke 11y agoAs a newcomer with little time, I'm making use of the "search" option to stay focused and learn instead of freely surfing the flow.
- hatchoo 11y agoI do. I read HN almost everyday and I scroll all the way down until I get to the articles I read the previous day.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoI think you're going to get a bit of sampling bias with this one.
- qrendel 11y agoI frequently get to page 5, sometimes as far as 7 or 8.
- Terretta 11y agoI read the top few hundred. This one is 86 at the moment.
- jordsmi 11y agoYes, but I don't usually read alot of posts total. I'll flip through a bunch of pages, opening interesting threads in a new tab. Then I look at the comments, and depending on how they look I'll read the article.
- NnamdiJr 11y agoSeems I might be the only one confused about your wording, do you mean the top 10 articles on the front page, or top 10 comments within an article? In answer to both questions, I do both. I usually go through the articles from #1 to ~#120, reading articles I find interesting, and usually reading all the HN comments for that article too (you can learn a ton from reading more than just the top couple of comments). Sounds like this approach would suck up a lot of time, but HN submission topics are often pretty narrow, and my interests are somewhat narrow too, so I usually only end up reading only 4-5 HN articles or less a day.
- adventured 11y agoI scan all the links on the front page, three or four times per day. I might click on 5 to 10 links per day from HN. If I'm bored (perhaps there's nothing on the front page of interest), I check the New section. A few times per week I read through the Ask HN section. This has basically been my routine for years now.
- de_dave 11y agoYes, but mostly because http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ catches them for me.
- roshansingh 11y agoI use http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ to track all front page posts.
- marak830 11y agoSame, i have been using it for about 4 months, i csn pretty much catch up on all posts too, which is nice.
- PeterWhittaker 11y agoDitto, been using for months (over a year? I cannot remember how long, but a loooong time).
- Urgo 11y agoBeen using hckrnews.com for many years. It's the only way I view hacker news other then comments for example and visiting the "new" section once a week or so. Sometimes I got several days without having time to catch up on things but I use hckrnews to go back and make sure I at least read the headline on every single story that makes it to the front page.
- mobiuscog 11y agoI often go through many pages. It would be great if there was an option to limit the posts by age, such that it wouldn't show posts created more than 'x' days ago - so I could still see all the recent posts, but in front-page order.
- mswen 11y agoNot sure what most people do. I sometimes hit the new and the ask pages to see if there is some good content that I can upvote or comment on. I recently began writing and have posted a few links to articles. I just recently found that an article that never made it to the front page of HN, accumulated only 3 points and no comments generated about 20 views of the article originating from HN. Twenty page views from readers of HN is not "great" but it is 20 people with exposure to my thinking that I didn't have 3 days ago. I view this as a net positive.
- 1arity 11y agoThis post is now at number 14 on the Ask Page. This comment will be at number 24 on this post. No one will ever know it is here.
- smeyer 11y ago>This comment will be at number 24 on this post I believe the HN ranking algorithm rewards recent comments, to the point where often the newest comments are at the top.
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- 1arity 11y ago> I believe if you were correct then the joke would not be funny. if the joke were not funny it would not have been upvoted. if it had not been upvoted it would not now be at the top. because it is now at the top, it had to have been funny, and you must be incorrect.