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Ask HN: What’s the Purpose of /Newcomments?

• quickthrower2 4y ago
  I have no idea but it is fun when I accidentally click it!
• buggythebug 4y ago
  Well the top posts are posts that were once new and got upvoted and made it to the front page. On a side note, as a non-tech guy who is into tech, I find stuff on the new comments page much more interesting than "top voted", and too specific posts as of right now such as "Algebraic Data Types in Elixir (appsignal.com)" Lots of stuff on the front page seems to me stuff that is highly irrelevant to the "grand-scheme" of things
• tobr 4y ago
  It was created at a time when it wasn’t quite as much of a firehose: https://web.archive.org/web/20070625191604/https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://web.archive.org/web/20070625191604/https://news.ycom... When there are several minutes between every comment, you can see how it’s useful to get directed to threads with ongoing activity.
• the_only_law 4y ago
  Used to be good for finding good interesting active threads, but if certain articles reach the front page, it’s going to be mostly disingenuous arguments and flame bait for a bit.
  • krapp 4y ago
    I've thought for a while that it should be curated. Don't show comments that aren't at least +2, nothing voted down or flagged, and preferably only comments no deeper than 2 levels from the root. Also only show a single comment from any thread, so quick threads don't overwhelm the feed. The only downside I can think of, if it's really a downside, is that it would slow the feed down considerably. It seems like it does have the tendency to just provide low hanging fruit to trolls and snipers otherwise.
• anon2020dot00 4y ago
  “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill