Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
22 points - today at 12:31 PM
Submissions rely on early upvotes to get to the main page, and I was wondering how many people actually visit "newest" to give those submissions a chance.
It would be nice to correlate this with people who have "Show Dead" turned on, but this is a start. Polls suffer from selection bias, but it might be interesting.
Pick whichever is closest ...
Comments
chistev today at 3:01 PM
If by newest you mean new, then I check it several times a day. It's a nice way of finding interesting content and submissions that will never make it to the Frontpage either because of bad timing or whatever reason.
PowerElectronix today at 2:39 PM
I wonder about the bias in this survey as it goes from newest to the main page.
From one that only ever opens the main page.
1over137 today at 2:49 PM
Where/what is newest? I see a “new” on the top page, is that what is meant?
s_dev today at 2:47 PM
Usually when I've submitted something myself.
Imustaskforhelp today at 3:12 PM
Whenever I interact with the main posts of Hackernews and I am interested for more, which happens almost multiple times per day or atleast once a day.
techteach00 today at 2:49 PM
If I get past page 3 without seeing anything interesting I will generally try new.
econ today at 2:51 PM
Change the link text from new to newest. Use the big word.
theandrewbailey today at 12:50 PM
Every time I come to HN, I go to newest first before really looking at the main page.
GaryBluto today at 2:56 PM
Very rarely, showdead on
mhitza today at 2:34 PM
Couple of times a year.
abcd_f today at 2:46 PM
Twice a year
SanjayMehta today at 2:48 PM
I don't even know how to check newest except by accident.
josefritzishere today at 2:50 PM
I use https://hckrnews.com/ . I prefer new over upvoted.
manfromchina1 today at 12:44 PM
I rarely go to the front page.
CamperBob2 today at 2:40 PM
I usually go through https://brutalist.report/ rather than HN's own 'new' link. It seems to filter out a lot of slop and self-promotion.