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Ask HN: Is HN Feature Frozen?
The recent changes on Twitter/X have led me to wonder: is HN in its final form? Why doesn't the team seem to ever make changes?
HN released an official API last year which is great. Is the expectation that all innovation should happen via API clients now?
- verdverm 3y agoPeople like the stability and minimalism here What needs to change?
- FriedPickles 3y agoI appreciate the stability and minimalism too. Personally I'd like to have some controls for the frontpage algorithm. For example, I check HN pretty infrequently, so I'd prefer to see older stuff (currently I use Algolia for this here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth). I'd also like to see controversial.
- r721 3y agoFront page submissions for a given day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front https://news.ycombinator.com/front Most active current discussions (popular controversial ones tend to end there): https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active (from the lists page https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists) See also: >A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
- alex_lav 3y agoIt's interesting that you'd use Twitter/X's updates as an example to follow. It seems like Elon's doing an effective job at running Twitter straight into the ground.