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No clue if I'm typical, but I almost never use the favorites feature. I see I did twice last year, and that was ten years after I joined.
by bdcravens 3y ago
No clue if I'm typical, but I almost never use the favorites feature. I see I did twice last year, and that was ten years after I joined.
- macintux 3y agoI managed to hit rate limiting on the site as I tried to retrieve my full list of favorites. I appear to have ~2000 submissions favorited for "future reading". Somehow I doubt I'll make my way through the entire list.
- alberth 3y ago0 favorites for me. Been on HN 12-years.
- jsolson 3y agoYeah, zero favorites, joined in Feb 2007.
- RandomWorker 3y agoWell this explains 90 faves putting a topic at nr 1.
- echelon 3y agoI typically favorite ~30 articles a week. I favorite more often than I upvote. I currently have 5,490 [1] favorited articles. I tell myself I'm training an interest classifier on this data... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=echelon&p=183 https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=echelon&p=183
- serial_dev 3y agoI use upvotes exclusively, and I assume it's the typical user behavior: Algolia HN search lists posts sorted by upvotes, and the most popular post has 6k+ upvotes, whereas the most favorites had (3 years ago) 90 faves. https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/
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- Modified3019 3y agoYeah typically I just dump things in the “reading list” on phone, which I eventually exfiltrate and clear every year or so on my phone, or add it to a list via the onetab extension on desktop. Most of this is just “emotional support bookmarks” because I’m a pathological data hoarder that apparently needs to catalog and sort the entirety of human knowledge. Saving a list of links tricks my brain into releasing this intrusive anxiety and keeps me from engaging in this odd sort of compulsion. But out of a thousand or two links a year, there are in fact a few dozen times I reach back to reference or use something I found. Haven’t learned physic though. So far unit conversion, geometry and algebra have been all I’ve needed in my line of work in regards to equation solving, as I did agricultural plot trials for a bit.
- sireat 3y agoFor some 10+ years I did not use favorites (or was even aware that it existed). Delicious then pinboard seemed enough. With pinboard often being sluggish these days, I've been using HN favorites more and more.
- doe88 3y agoLike star on Github I use favorite on HN as bookmarks.