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I like the rotating new article at the top of Reddit, how about that for HN?
The new story suggester at the top of reddit helps people to notice new stories a bit more and bring some stories that might have not been noticed to the top. Anyone else think this would be good to add to HN?
- sysop073 18y agoAs long as it can be disabled like the Reddit one I wouldn't object to it. I don't ever go to homepages anyway, I use RSS feeds
- wastedbrains 18y agoGood call it would have to be optional
- icco 18y agoYa that wouldn't be bad. I'm a bigger fan of random news articles though. Have an area somewhere on the page where it puts up a random article from sometime in the last two months. This way you can be reminded of what was happening just a little while ago and lets articles that may have been passed over get a little bump.
- DarkShikari 18y agoI like the idea also; it gives more exposure to new submissions without having to explicitly browse the "new pages" section.
- antiismist 18y agoIf this is a problem, wouldn't it be better to turn up the gravity on the scoring algo so that fresher stories were on the front page? That plus the /active link seems like a nice combo. I.E. making the front page fresher could dilute the amount of conversation on a piece, but that could be balanced via the active link.
- wastedbrains 18y agoThat is interesting... I guess I don't really feel like the front page is to stale. I do feel like interesting pieces sometimes are overlooked or fail to make the front page. This can often happen if a bunch of bigger news stories are submitted. They rise up quickly and then a smaller but interesting story just passes away unnoticed.
- michaelneale 18y agoI don't like it on reddit, as 98% of the time it is not something that would ever have had a chance to get noticed (but I guess that is the point isn't it !).
- comatose_kid 18y agoI like the minimalist look of the current site. Adding features like this increases the visual clutter.
- mynameishere 18y agoIt's necessary on reddit because the "new" page flies by very quickly, and just a few jerks who downmod everything but their own submissions can control the content.
- anotherjesse 18y agoThis would be an interesting userscripts. I particularly like scripts like http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512 which make hacker news even better.