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Ask HN: Why does page 2 of HN have discussions from 2 years ago?
Here is a screenshot page 2 of HN's current stories as of today (May 25th, 2012) 11:00 PM CST:
http://i.imgur.com/5u2Q6.png
Discussions # 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 56 on page 2 are from several days ago (some even 2+ years old).
What kind of ranking algorithm is being applied? Is there some kind of personalization of stories?
And here's one as of 11:08 PM CST:
http://imgur.com/515ki
Was there some switch announced on the purpose of the More link on the HN front page?
- alanh 14y agoBottom of page 1 had a year-old story a couple days ago, too. Definitely interesting and unusual.
- pg 14y agoA bug. Things should improve now.
- tomasien 14y agoPG you're so fucking cool.
- tar 14y agoI am fairly new here but I think aimless fanboyism is frowned upon here.
- batista 14y agoI also frown upon aimless recital of the "rules" of what's frowned upon "these here parts".
- michael_fine 14y agoNo. It's not aimless. HN is a place to share links and discuss things that hackers would find interesting. It's a carefully run community, and we try to keep in cordial and respectful, all while being entirely relevant.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- tomasien 14y agoI hope the urge to fix this was still as strong in your as it is whenever someone reports a bug in something I'm responsible for.
- shaggyfrog 14y agoFixing bugs at 11pm on a Friday night? True hackerism. edit: Christ, downvotes? I meant that sincerely. It's not like I'm not up at midnight coding myself. Sheesh.
- raldi 14y agoWhat was the nature of the bug?
- shareme 14y agois it a tasty bug or just some withered moth caught in the vac tubes?
- cperciva 14y agoProbably the server was restarted. Odd things tend to happen when things aren't cached as expected.
- jerrya 14y agoCheck your ping time. Try a traceroute.
- archetypical 14y agoCould be all the blocked websites and hell banned HN accounts haunting the system. Or bad karma for having a karma scoring system?
- omegant 14y agoI had noticed that stories where lasting several days in the front page. I thought that some kind of weird traffic plumbeting was happening. It is an old bug or a recent change that caused this?
- chaud 14y agoOnly on HN will people think a bug that has appeared several times is an unannounced feature.
- brudgers 14y agoI experience it often on the ask page. Since the old threads often have a meaningful number of upvotes and can address topics in which I am interested, sometimes find these threads relevant. It's not a bug, it's not a feature, it's a side effect.