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While I agree it's a feature, I'm pretty sure it works the opposite way. The idea is that you want the second page to be "stale": if you've just spent time read
by sirclueless 14y ago
While I agree it's a feature, I'm pretty sure it works the opposite way. The idea is that you want the second page to be "stale": if you've just spent time reading the front page, when you click to the second page you should be getting all new links.
This comes at a cost though, because the server must cache all the possible second pages that might be requested. So HN makes a compromise and caches them for an hour or so. If you wait an hour, it will have been evicted from the cache and the error will appear.
- kaiwetzel 14y agoI like your explanation of this feature. I guess it rarely works for me because I open dozens of tabs when I start and some of them inevitably become stale if I do something else in between and then go back to read some hacker news discussion. I often and up just closing discussions having a "more"-link since it tends to frustrate me one way or another. I wish there was an option to disable "more"-links entirely (or is there?) I can see how it's useful for small screens but full-size on a 27"+ screen or in portrait mode (my preference for browsing the web) I think seeing 500+ comments on one page would be totally fine :-) (Ideally, after reloading it, new submissions would be highlighted, one can only dream)