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Also, FYI, I don't even use this anymore, these days I just read the HN frontpage. :)
by joelgrus 13y ago
Also, FYI, I don't even use this anymore, these days I just read the HN frontpage. :)
- tlarkworthy 13y agoIts exactly the kind of thing I would build and abandon. So the maybe more interesting things is why you don't use it? I presume its a UI thing, or classifier is unreliable, or something? I would love to hear why vanilla HN is better now.
- davidw 13y ago> I would love to hear why vanilla HN is better now. Probably because it has more politics and less 'hacker news' these days.
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- joelgrus 13y agoI don't know that vanilla HN is better now. I abandoned it for two main reasons: 1. The Hacker News API I was using was very unreliable and would go down for days / weeks at a time, which made the whole pipeline unreliable. 2. I was consuming this as an RSS feed, but when Google Reader shut down I abandoned my RSS habit cold turkey, so now I pretty much only read sites that I visit directly, or things people link to on FB / Twitter.
- icebraining 13y agoWhy did you use the API instead of consuming the HN RSS feed itself? They even offer a big feed for such usage: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
- joelgrus 13y agoHa, mostly because I didn't know about it. The big feed is not all that discoverable.
- gus_massa 13y agoI found the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3602407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3602407 (498 points, 737 days ago, 82 comments) (Note: I usually prefer the "unfiltered" version, unless there is a very special new that covers the 90% of the front page.)