Ask HN: Why is the damn HN:Next timeout so short??

Posted by phlux on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @05:59PM
from the ask-hn dept.

When I click on "next" it is invariably after I have been distracted away from HN by work, and I get the dreaded "Unknown or expired link"

I HATE THIS

Can we please get whatever magic number times this out increased beyond single digits!

Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the damn HN:Next timeout so short?? by nicker on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @08:44PM (#2200299)

I'd prefer it just redirect to the top of news.ycombinator.com/. The ranking of stories change over time, so at some point "more" has no meaning when the underlying list has changed. Since everyone who sees the expired link page, goes back to the top, the site should redirect there for me automatically.

I guess another option is to have the URL be like: http://news.ycombinator.com/items?start=31 then clicking "more" sends you to whatever the current items 61-90 are.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the damn HN:Next timeout so short?? by phlux on Thursday February 10, 2011 @12:19AM (#2200900)

exactly, that is how reddit does it... I wonder if YC has heard of them ;P

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the damn HN:Next timeout so short?? by marssaxman on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @07:13PM (#2199979)

I don't understand why the link expires in the first place. Does not seem like evidence of good design.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the damn HN:Next timeout so short?? by baremetal on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @07:09PM (#2199964)

Agreed, this timeout degrades user experience greatly.

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