4 ms·

Perhaps "Top 10 most-commented posts" would be interesting as well?

• lemming 16y ago
  I think this would be great, especially as an option. The posts that generate the most discussion are often interesting, and curiously aren't always the top voted.
• cperciva 16y ago
  That's a lot harder to do -- I can get away with scraping the front page right now because highly voted posts are likely to be on the front page for most of their vote-getting lifetime, but that argument probably doesn't hold about highly commented posts.
  • what 16y ago
    You could maybe check /active ? Maybe the highly commented sit on there for most of their comment-getting lifetime.
  • brown9-2 16y ago
    Hm, this is true. Perhaps you could scrape /newcomments and keep track of which stories are getting new comments? This would hinge on the frequency of all comments to the site and having your scraping interval be less than the difference of the most recent comment and last comment displayed on /newcomments. I think it'd just be really great to have another view into "Most active discussions".