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You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25
by sidsavara 18y ago
You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there.
I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.
- sharkbrainguy 18y agoor a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage. (def homepage (page (top 10) (newest 5)))
- tlrobinson 18y ago<FRAMESET rows="66%, 34%"> <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/"> <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/newest"> </FRAMESET> No? Not quite what you were looking for?
- sidsavara 18y agoA little ugly, but a good 80% solution =P Reminds me of this article - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Gloves.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Glove... ;) Gloves!
- markatson 18y agoI prefer: <FRAMESET cols="66%, 34%"> <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/"> <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/newest"> </FRAMESET> Makes it easier to read because Y content is usually skinny and most new screens are wide. :) edit: but I'm splitting hairs...
- sidsavara 18y agoNow that I think about it, I am pretty sure something like this is possible with some greasemonkey/iframe magic Still not a perfect solution as not everyone will install it - but a decent start eh?
- Xichekolas 18y agoDone! HN Toolkit: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 Install and turn on the 'Show new items at bottom of main page?' option. Let me know if you have problems.
- d0mine 18y agos{ var blacklist = GM_getValue('hndomains', ''); }{ var blacklist = GM_getValue('hnblacklist', ''); }x;
- Xichekolas 18y agoYeah I changed the name of that a couple versions back. If you want your old blacklist back, you can do something like: GM_setValue('hndomains', GM_getValue('hndomains', '') + ' ' + GM_getValue('hnblacklist', '')) GM_setValue('hnblacklist', '') And then upgrade to the new version. In the future I'll try and be more conscious of upgrades when I change something like that.
- d0mine 18y agoI don't use the script. I'd just thought that 'hnblacklist' would be a better name.
- sidsavara 18y agoCool! I installed it, and selected the option - and nothing happens. I still see 30 items at the bottom Can you tell me the exact URL that I should be seeing it at? I see toolkit. When I use that I see the search YC buttons etc, but when I select that option specifically, nothing happens. I am assuming http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ is the main page you are referring to right? Edit: SOLVED. http://news.ycombinator.com/news http://news.ycombinator.com/news - now all is well! =)
- Xichekolas 18y ago
- bprater 18y agoHey, I kinda like that idea!
- pg 18y agoI'm planning to start letting people use code snippets to customize stuff, actually.
- vaksel 18y agoI like the reddit layout for this. At the top show the latest submission, granted the reddit thing is a little bit more complicated...but for HN you can get away with just showing the latest entry since there are so few new submissions
- DTrejo 18y agoI've seen that increasingly they have been streaming by
- light3 18y agoHow about extra karma for the people who take time to up-mod new articles that eventually 'make it'?
- pedalpete 18y agoActually, i barely use the main page, as lots of stuff on that I've likely seen before. I come in, scan the top few items on the main page, and then jump into new and go through like two or three pages (until I'm caught up). So for my personal preference, I'd probably be interested in seeing the newest stuff, and then maybe a column for 'most popular'. I know it's unconventional, but...