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Well, the idea would be that the casual viewer couldn't distinguish the 'new' from the front page and so would treat them the same. Otherwise people will ignor
by jbert 16y ago
Well, the idea would be that the casual viewer couldn't distinguish the 'new' from the front page and so would treat them the same.
Otherwise people will ignore new as they do now.
(Point score could be left off of the front page to help this).
- alextgordon 16y agoI think the problem is not that people are wilfully ignoring it, rather it's just not prominent enough. When I open HN, I am immediately seduced by an interesting headline (or point score) of a frontpage story. I don't have time to make a conscious decision to visit /newest. There's no way it's getting precedence over "12 ways to speed up your Erlang programs with NoSQL". If new and the frontpage got equal treatment, then I'd be seduced by interesting headlines of frontpage and new stories equally. Meaning the good new stories would have a better chance of being upvoted. I wouldn't like to see frontpage and new stories merged into the same list, since a great deal of new stories are spam or otherwise devoid of interest.