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For me, absolutely. And the fact that it’s text-only helps enormously too. The way I interact with HN is fine to me. I skim the posts once a day and read maybe
by andrewrn 1y ago
For me, absolutely. And the fact that it’s text-only helps enormously too. The way I interact with HN is fine to me. I skim the posts once a day and read maybe one or two.
I’ve never scrolled hours away on HN.
- Taikonerd 1y agoI think it's also important that HN doesn't have infinite scrolling. It's old-school: 30 items per page, click at the bottom to go to the next page. I made a rule for myself that I would never go past page 2 of HN. So, each morning, I see 60 items, and if none of them interest me, then I just move on with my day. I think that's why I never became addicted.
- andrewrn 1y agoIf you didn’t have that rule would you go past page 2? Frankly I just don’t find HN articles as cheaply and quickly mentally palatable as other sites. The content here is usually more cognitively demanding, so I don’t end up scrolling.
- Taikonerd 1y agoDepends how bored I was at work ;-)
- krackers 1y agoThe rate at which content ends up on the front page is also slower than your ability to consume it. So even if you do keep clicking, you end up on yesterday's links you've already read.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoOK so in this comment, and child comments, a number of hypotheses are mentioned for why HN is fine: * HN is text-only * HN lacks infinite scroll * HN adds new content slowly * HN is cognitively demanding My guess is that these factors are most important. If you held them constant and added a recommendation engine in HN, I doubt HN would become considerably more addictive.