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Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the “New” page?

I know this is meta but I have been thinking a lot about how the content that ends up on the front page is less technical than it has been in the past. One reason is because I feel a lot of people are leaving their votes on the table and not voting up new content regularly. Am I wrong in this? What's your mix of time spent reading vs voting?

IAmNeo 8y ago
I visit "New" a few times a day, it's my go to when I've nothing else to do. Sadly, I hardly ever vote.
oldmancoyote 8y ago
I spend maybe 30 minutes a day on New and just a minute or two on the Front Page. New is where all the interesting and thoughtful stuff is. The Front Page is pretty dull. I think only one item I voted on ended up on the front page. I'm reading this on New right now. I don't recall on ever voting on the Front Page.
miguelrochefort 8y ago
10 minutes a year.
wilsonnb3 8y ago
Never been. I’m just here for the comments so the new page isn’t useful for me.
KiDD 8y ago
Once I'm like 10 pages deep or hit a bunch of visited links I go to new
nf05papsjfVbc 8y ago
I find the front-page itself to have poor signal-noise ratio. New is much worse. So, I stick to the main page and the "ask" page. I seldom look at the "new" page.
Doyniish 8y ago
Not much unless I have already caught up earlier in the day, like on weekends. I usually go right to the 'Ask' page as I like reading the discussions in the comments.
blcArmadillo 8y ago
I look at new quite a bit but that's probably because I typically consume HN via a script which opens a text file containing: front page, ask, new, show. The entries are formatted as: Entry #. Title <link to article> <link to discussion> So for example for this page it showed up as: 18. Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the New page? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18876390 This makes it easy for me to quickly consume.
- blcArmadillo 8y ago
  P.S. It's a pretty ugly script but it's been doing the job for 4+ yrs. Feel free to grab it here: https://pastebin.com/jt7RfEbF https://pastebin.com/jt7RfEbF. It'll write the output to the file o.txt.
cm2012 8y ago
I only read comments 95% of the time, so very rarely.

IAmNeo 8y ago

I visit "New" a few times a day, it's my go to when I've nothing else to do. Sadly, I hardly ever vote.

oldmancoyote 8y ago

I spend maybe 30 minutes a day on New and just a minute or two on the Front Page. New is where all the interesting and thoughtful stuff is. The Front Page is pretty dull. I think only one item I voted on ended up on the front page. I'm reading this on New right now. I don't recall on ever voting on the Front Page.

miguelrochefort 8y ago

10 minutes a year.

wilsonnb3 8y ago

Never been. I’m just here for the comments so the new page isn’t useful for me.

KiDD 8y ago

Once I'm like 10 pages deep or hit a bunch of visited links I go to new

nf05papsjfVbc 8y ago

I find the front-page itself to have poor signal-noise ratio. New is much worse. So, I stick to the main page and the "ask" page. I seldom look at the "new" page.

Doyniish 8y ago

Not much unless I have already caught up earlier in the day, like on weekends. I usually go right to the 'Ask' page as I like reading the discussions in the comments.

blcArmadillo 8y ago

I look at new quite a bit but that's probably because I typically consume HN via a script which opens a text file containing: front page, ask, new, show. The entries are formatted as: Entry #. Title <link to article> <link to discussion> So for example for this page it showed up as: 18. Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the New page? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18876390 This makes it easy for me to quickly consume.

blcArmadillo 8y ago
P.S. It's a pretty ugly script but it's been doing the job for 4+ yrs. Feel free to grab it here: https://pastebin.com/jt7RfEbF https://pastebin.com/jt7RfEbF. It'll write the output to the file o.txt.

cm2012 8y ago

I only read comments 95% of the time, so very rarely.