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Ask HN: Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted?
I've noticed that the top spot for articles in the last has turned over three times within the last three hours. While I enjoy the mix of articles here on HN, I kind of feel that the fast rate of change for the top most articles is a bit frenetic.
Given that HN is becoming mainstream with all of the excellent exposure PG has had being on the cover of Inc., I'm wondering if the ranking formula needs to be adjusted or not.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think it's fine, as far as I'm concerned the decay could be a lot quicker than it is right now. This is one of those aspects of a website that is hard to do right to please everybody. And to make it configurable on a per user basis would probably be quite expensive in terms of server usage.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoTo a certain degree it already is configurable on a per-user basis, right? Your upvotes are "saved" for you. The only other user-configurable option would be to "hide" items that you have voted on or manually hidden (a la reddit). Does that require more server power? Sure but not 2x, right?
- cjg 17y agoI would really like to be able to see all the articles that were submitted since I last visited ordered by their votes. That way when I don't visit HN over a holiday or a busy weekend then I know that I won't miss anything important.
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- pg 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best
- tdoggette 17y agoIs there a list somewhere of all the "special" pages on HN?
- cjg 17y agoNot quite what I wanted - this shows the most voted for articles in the last 10(?) days. I would like something that can show the most voted for articles since I last visited. Defining "last visited" is non-trivial - I want to be able to look at more than one page of "best since last visited" articles.
- kirubakaran 17y agoWhen I browse the comments of people I follow, sometimes I find totally great discussions that I missed as I was doing something else and didn't check HN for 12 hours. So I wish I could browse front pages by date. Everything that hit the front page and with over 5 points should be listed for each day. I used to run a crude cron job that did this. I let it die. May be I should set it up again.
- TrevorJ 17y agoI think the turnover rate is fine.
- pj 17y agoI'd like to see some filtering so that I can clear out posts I've seen, or not show anything from particular domains.
- jacquesm 17y agoSerious abuse of the moderation system in this thread, this is not a poll, it is a discussion, if you don't agree with somebody say why, don't mod down.