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Poll: How do you consume HN?

9 points by riskish 16y ago

I thought this would be helpful to see where everyone is reading HN from.

JoachimSchipper 16y ago
I don't think many people who read HN monthly will respond...
- timrobinson 16y ago
  Maybe they'll respond in a month.
lolizbak 16y ago
There's like 10 jewels an hour, executing a good digest would be a big challenge ... :)
nkohari 16y ago
Isn't this poll going to be extremely biased towards people reading it on the main site, since that's the only place you can comment? :)
- zyfo 16y ago
  Indeed. A poll doesn't say much if anything at all if one does not account for self-selection bias. Today I'm reading the main site, normally I would be reading a daily/weekly/monthly digest. Today I'm commenting, any other day I probably wouldn't. I'm still the same person.
- AndrewDucker 16y ago
  I saw it via RSS, and then clicked through to comment.
- andrewcurioso 16y ago
  The RSS feed users can just click the link and post comments as well.
allard 16y ago
mostly via Reader, occasionally via mobile app
ekidd 16y ago
Via a Xoom port of Amir's HNdroid, but I haven't added poll support yet so I can't vote. :-)
antidaily 16y ago
Twitter feed is useful as well.
MochaMocha 16y ago
I reader headlines in Reader. If it's compelling I click into comments/link.
GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
Wow. A sobering reminder to me that even for a tech-savvy readership, only about ten percent are using RSS. Maybe this warrants another survey on why people don't use RSS.
- akkartik 16y ago
  I use RSS a lot but I wouldn't use it for HN. You miss out on the ordering of stories on the frontpage and the browsing of comments.
  - GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
    What's significant or interesting about the ordering of stories on the frontpage? I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments). What I gain with Reader is the ability to mark all as read and therefore the ability to see what's new since the last time I checked.
    - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
      The ordering on the Front Page takes into account the age and the upvotes. "Good" stories that have been noticed end up on the Front Page. "Bad" stories, and stories that don't get noticed for random reasons, don't.
    - akkartik 16y ago
      If there was no significance to the frontpage it wouldn't exist. It's doing curating for you, a hint at what stories to look at, and all without becoming yet another ever-growing set of things to catch up on if you don't return for a few days. "I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments)" If you browse comments a lot you end up spending almost all your time outside the reader anyway, so it doesn't seem to help that much. I can see how you want to avoid the frontpage if you check HN often - it just shows you the same stories all the time. I've thought a lot about this, and RSS doesn't really fit social news, especially comments. So far the best UI I've been able to come up with is hackerstream like I said elsewhere in this thread.
akkartik 16y ago
Shameless plug: I'm still using the realtime UI I showed here a few weeks ago (http://hackerstream.com http://hackerstream.com, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871) People sometimes think it's only useful if you're consuming HN all the time, but it turns out it's just another random slice of HN, one that's guaranteed to be all new no matter how often you check.
bryanlarsen 16y ago
hckrnews.com for me.
- nicksergeant 16y ago
  Yes. The only way I'm able to spend a reasonable about of time on here.
riskish 16y ago
if anyone wants me to add a choice let me know
pseale 16y ago
I only see stories over 100 points via: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 ...except if I get bored on a Friday and look at new topics, which explains how I saw this link in the first place...
u48998 16y ago
I would like to know how to subscribe RSS feeds of the comments of the individual stories (not all comments, but comments on the threads like this one).
auxbuss 16y ago
Up'd rss feed, but I do it via the Newsfox plug-in in FF.
jordo37 16y ago
I use both the site and the rss feed into Google Reader. I use the site throughout the day to keep track of anything important rising to the top and then use the RSS feed to make sure I didnt miss anything critical as well as to archive for search with all my other online "memories" in Reader.
Tiomaidh 16y ago
I get a daily email made from the RSS feed. That way I can quickly scroll through things (clicking on the links that seem interesting) and know that I haven't missed anything without junking up Google Reader.

9 points by riskish 16y ago

I thought this would be helpful to see where everyone is reading HN from.

JoachimSchipper 16y ago

I don't think many people who read HN monthly will respond...

timrobinson 16y ago
Maybe they'll respond in a month.

lolizbak 16y ago

There's like 10 jewels an hour, executing a good digest would be a big challenge ... :)

nkohari 16y ago

Isn't this poll going to be extremely biased towards people reading it on the main site, since that's the only place you can comment? :)

zyfo 16y ago
Indeed. A poll doesn't say much if anything at all if one does not account for self-selection bias. Today I'm reading the main site, normally I would be reading a daily/weekly/monthly digest. Today I'm commenting, any other day I probably wouldn't. I'm still the same person.
AndrewDucker 16y ago
I saw it via RSS, and then clicked through to comment.
andrewcurioso 16y ago
The RSS feed users can just click the link and post comments as well.

allard 16y ago

mostly via Reader, occasionally via mobile app

ekidd 16y ago

Via a Xoom port of Amir's HNdroid, but I haven't added poll support yet so I can't vote. :-)

antidaily 16y ago

Twitter feed is useful as well.

MochaMocha 16y ago

I reader headlines in Reader. If it's compelling I click into comments/link.

GiraffeNecktie 16y ago

Wow. A sobering reminder to me that even for a tech-savvy readership, only about ten percent are using RSS. Maybe this warrants another survey on why people don't use RSS.

akkartik 16y ago
I use RSS a lot but I wouldn't use it for HN. You miss out on the ordering of stories on the frontpage and the browsing of comments.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
  What's significant or interesting about the ordering of stories on the frontpage? I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments). What I gain with Reader is the ability to mark all as read and therefore the ability to see what's new since the last time I checked.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    The ordering on the Front Page takes into account the age and the upvotes. "Good" stories that have been noticed end up on the Front Page. "Bad" stories, and stories that don't get noticed for random reasons, don't.
  - akkartik 16y ago
    If there was no significance to the frontpage it wouldn't exist. It's doing curating for you, a hint at what stories to look at, and all without becoming yet another ever-growing set of things to catch up on if you don't return for a few days. "I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments)" If you browse comments a lot you end up spending almost all your time outside the reader anyway, so it doesn't seem to help that much. I can see how you want to avoid the frontpage if you check HN often - it just shows you the same stories all the time. I've thought a lot about this, and RSS doesn't really fit social news, especially comments. So far the best UI I've been able to come up with is hackerstream like I said elsewhere in this thread.

akkartik 16y ago

Shameless plug: I'm still using the realtime UI I showed here a few weeks ago (http://hackerstream.com http://hackerstream.com, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871) People sometimes think it's only useful if you're consuming HN all the time, but it turns out it's just another random slice of HN, one that's guaranteed to be all new no matter how often you check.

bryanlarsen 16y ago

hckrnews.com for me.

nicksergeant 16y ago
Yes. The only way I'm able to spend a reasonable about of time on here.

riskish 16y ago

if anyone wants me to add a choice let me know

pseale 16y ago

I only see stories over 100 points via: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 ...except if I get bored on a Friday and look at new topics, which explains how I saw this link in the first place...

u48998 16y ago

I would like to know how to subscribe RSS feeds of the comments of the individual stories (not all comments, but comments on the threads like this one).

auxbuss 16y ago

Up'd rss feed, but I do it via the Newsfox plug-in in FF.

jordo37 16y ago

I use both the site and the rss feed into Google Reader. I use the site throughout the day to keep track of anything important rising to the top and then use the RSS feed to make sure I didnt miss anything critical as well as to archive for search with all my other online "memories" in Reader.

Tiomaidh 16y ago

I get a daily email made from the RSS feed. That way I can quickly scroll through things (clicking on the links that seem interesting) and know that I haven't missed anything without junking up Google Reader.