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I like it. It seems to surface more unusually good stories -- but is that a problem? Won't the list end up dominated by a handful of winner-take-all stories,
by MilnerRoute 8y ago
I like it. It seems to surface more unusually good stories -- but is that a problem?
Won't the list end up dominated by a handful of winner-take-all stories, lingering throughout the entire day at the top of the list, rather than an ongoing series of slightly-less-popular stories popping in and out?
If there's always going to be better stories with the "sorted by time spent" view, does that create a danger that everyone will just devote their attention to those few high-grade stories, and ignore all of the rest?
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- dang 8y agoIt's just a list of past front pages. Once each day is over, its front page never changes. Does that answer your question? (Well, it's not exactly a list of past front pages, because what appears on /front was never the actual front page at any point. Since that's always changing, we take a kind of average.)
- MilnerRoute 8y agoYeah, I was confused about how this works. But if the link appears at the bottom of the page, then this new page will be more of an afterthought (after reading the current front page and upvoting its stories at that moment in time).