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21 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 6h \ parent \ on: Is SN daily reward a problem? AskSN
I suggest just one old post a day should be able make it into the hot and top lists. It encourages newer users to explore some SN classics each day but ensures the hot and top lists are fresh and not just filled with old posts.
I prefer
Hot to continue its emphasis on recency. I'm not sure if I would derive much value in having it surface old posts, especially if there isn't active discussion in that old post.That being said, my most used view other than
Hot is now recent/comments to see where the new activity is. I wonder if that should be a one-click promoted view, rather than the multiple steps I need to take to get there currently.Lastly, I do think there should be a better way to surface evergreen content for new users, I just don't think
Hot is the best place to do that. The search bar is one such place, but I'm not sure how good of a job that does.A fundamental question is whether users approach SN as a place to find information (evergreen quality more important), or a place to have conversations (recency & activity more important). I sense that most users are using it for the latter rather than the former.
For the former, it's probably more important to get some more SEO visibility through common search engines like Google. I do notice that some search terms in Google do surface SN on the front page, which is good, but anything that can be done to improve that would be helpful.
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If we get personalized hot feeds again, then you'll only get old posts showing up when stackers you trust are zapping them.
- That might correlate with new activity on the post.
- You might have missed the post the first time through.
I'd ask why Stacker News should take a hard stance on the time-horizon for highlighting posts. Most likely it will be new posts that are heavily featured, but if an old post finds new life, why shouldn't the rewards system reflect that?
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That's fair. I think I'd value a resurfacing of old posts if there's new comments, but not necessarily if there's new zaps.
Fair point about missing good posts the first time around though.
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I'm not sure what the plans are, but I don't think it should get into the TOP feed, just the HOT one. TOP should be reserved only for posts ranked by creation date. We could have a limit on old posts in the HOT feed, but it should be more than one, I'd say 10. Ahah
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The limit's just there to stop people from abusing it. I'm not necessarily saying it has to be 10, though; that's gonna depend on what the stackers do. It could be 0, 1, ... up to a max of 10.
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