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I think the poster's point was that "Ask HN" posts are becoming less common (either posted less frequently, or just aren't voted up to the front page as often a
by profquail 17y ago
I think the poster's point was that "Ask HN" posts are becoming less common (either posted less frequently, or just aren't voted up to the front page as often as they used to be).
I'll admit that I miss this a lot too, to the point where I often just go through and upvote all except the most trival "Ask HN" posts. The ability to ask for good advice from a very smart group of people was once one of the best features of this site.
- samwillis 17y agoI had a look through /newest and there seems to be roughly one new Ask HN post an hour although with the quantity of new submissions that HN get every hour they quickly move off the first page. I suspect that the posts don't stay visible on /newest long enough for a discussion to start and for the normal voter to find it worth voting for. I submitted an Ask HN post yesterday and it was off the bottom of /newest in little over an hour and a half, that is not long enough for a discussion to have become interesting. I don't know if there is something that could or should be changed to improve this, maybe an /ask/newest?
- justliving 17y ago+1 for /ask/newest
- njl 17y agoI had a couple of submissions that I thought were pretty reasonable, but disappeared without a trace. I now make it a habit to go through /newest when I visit HN. I view it as a little work to curate a community that I get a lot of value from.
- axod 17y agoI think the recent problem has been an overwhelming amount of iPad/iPhone/Apple news,opinion,opinion on opinion etc which has pushed everything else out. Hopefully it'll settle down soon. It's great there is now the 'ask' page though which means at least that we can see such posts.