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One aspect I really don't like is the slot-machine mechanic of mixing yesterday's (or day before's) top stories with today's trending stories. That makes me re-
by karmakaze 3y ago
One aspect I really don't like is the slot-machine mechanic of mixing yesterday's (or day before's) top stories with today's trending stories. That makes me re-read so many titles, looking for that dopamine hit of something new and interesting. I like many have made a front-end that serves my own purpose and lists stories in reverse chronological order, only showing stories that made the cutoff of 'top' according to the API request.
- badtension 3y agoSomething like https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com ?
- karmakaze 3y agoVery much so. It[0] didn't start out that way. It was first a way of reading the list offline (while underground commuting pre-pandemic), opening a bunch of link tabs at station stops. The other thing it does is group stories by type and made-up keywords to put uninteresting/noisy stuff at the bottom, leaving the deeper cuts at top. [0] https://hackerer.news https://hackerer.news