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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by throwaway93132 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:29PM (#23318791)
I don't think this would be a good idea. There's a lot of content created on Facebook at any given moment. If you show things only in chronological order, it would take an incredible amount of filtering (that the vast majority of users won't do) to get to anything reasonable.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by dimator on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:53PM (#23318918)
But this is how Reddit works. And HN actually.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by nikanj on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:05PM (#23318983)
Reddit and HN front pages are both driven by an algorithm sampling both popularity and time. I think HN also has a chronological view, but that's not considered the front page.
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