Re:Ask HN: Why are you sorting by new?
by sshine on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:31AM
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> Why are you sorting by new?
Otherwise, I wouldn't be reading the news, I'd be reading the olds.
I check Hacker News often enough during a day that if I only care about the most upvoted articles, I reach a point in the list where the items that I've already read and the ones I haven't get mixed. Sorting by new, the moment I see something I've read before, I go "Ah, no more news."
If I'm particularly craving, I scroll down past the chunk of most recently read to a point in the past where there was a larger gap.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be reading the news, I'd be reading the olds.
I check Hacker News often enough during a day that if I only care about the most upvoted articles, I reach a point in the list where the items that I've already read and the ones I haven't get mixed. Sorting by new, the moment I see something I've read before, I go "Ah, no more news."
If I'm particularly craving, I scroll down past the chunk of most recently read to a point in the past where there was a larger gap.