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Quoting the answer (by pg): "It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the
by AdamH12113 3y ago
Quoting the answer (by pg): "It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the site is declining. In practice it's usually just a slower-changing version of the frontpage."
- 0xbadcafebee 3y agoThe irony of change over time being seen as decline on a tech forum. Let's all put our brains in glass jars in virtual static universes so our thoughts and behaviors don't change
- mikepurvis 3y agoThat doesn't seem like a meaningful takeaway unless those first-year users are also only seeing the "classic" homepage. Most people aren't individually reviewing new-page submissions, they're voting for stuff that's already popular on the default frontpage. First-year users aren't immune to this— they're primarily voting up stuff that others already voted for. So it makes perfect sense that "classic" under this model would be a delayed version of default; indeed, one should expect that result with any randomly selected 10% of the voting userbase.