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The classic front page only counts submissions (not votes), I believe.

• solipsist 16y ago
  PG: To measure any possible decline I created an alternative version of the frontpage that only counted the votes of users who signed up in the first year. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513)
  • barrkel 16y ago
    Unfortunately, first-year users will only vote on what they see, and if they don't consistently use the classic view - which I expect very few would - then they will most likely only vote on what everyone else has voted on. Thus, classic wouldn't be expected to be significantly different from the regular home page, and thus it cannot measure the decline.
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    • rkudeshi 16y ago
      As a newer user, what are the differences between the standard view and the classic view?
      • kgermino 16y ago
        Classic view (news.ycombinator.com/classic) looks the same, however the stories are ranked using only votes from older users. The cutoff is either (1)accounts that have been around for more than a year or (2)accounts that were made in the first year the site was running. I believe that it's (1), but I've heard it both ways.