[bovermyer]

The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y.

https://bubbles.town/briefing

[lapcat]

Also, showing the excerpts from the post text is vastly superior to just showing the post titles.

[viermalbe]

I currently work on a feature to show excerpts (and read time) in the list views as well. But I will wait with the deployment until the Hacker News visitor wave has calmed down.

[lapcat]

> and read time

If anything, I would recommend a word count instead.

Word count is objective. Read time is subjective, variable, just an estimate, and probably based on word count anyway.

[gus_massa]

You can try with https://news.ycombinator.com/best

[alfirous]

This is the best for me (pun intended). Less overwhelming than the default front page. And more discussion.

[frereubu]

Would love a version of this on HN.

[ryanbuening]

https://hcker.news

[swed420]

also

https://hckrnews.com

for a slightly different take on the concept