| Topics like these crop up from time to time: 279 days ago Sama posted asking people to read newest as a solution[1], and I wrote: --- Sam I think you have great power to give /newest more views if you'd consider minor redesigns. Perhaps you could dither stories so the front-page list goes top/new/top/new/top/new, etc, but that is potentially very messy. Or perhaps instead, the front-page can show 30 top stories, then a line break, then 30 new stories, all on the front page. Long-scrolling pages are in fashion, after all. These aren't well-developed ideas, but the point remains that the inertia of being one click away means that a huge percentage of people will never even look at /newest, never-mind up-vote interesting stories. Please consider changes to modify the median behavior. It's within your power and would do us all good. It's worth an experiment, isn't it? --- Sam replied: "good ideas here and in the responses. we will consider", but I guess they never got around to testing any of them, or nixed the idea, or mere inertia, etcetc. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972941 |