Is this a reference to the quality of HN discussion going on lately? I'd lurked long before I ever signed up, and I just always assumed that getting noticed was largely chance. For whatever reason, it feels like you're saying this wasn't always the case.
There used to be vastly fewer submissions per day, so if you read /newest once a day you'd see a greater fraction of the submissions. Now that /newest only holds about the last hour, submissions scroll off before very many people even see them.
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Is this a reference to the quality of HN discussion going on lately? I'd lurked long before I ever signed up, and I just always assumed that getting noticed was largely chance. For whatever reason, it feels like you're saying this wasn't always the case.
There used to be vastly fewer submissions per day, so if you read /newest once a day you'd see a greater fraction of the submissions. Now that /newest only holds about the last hour, submissions scroll off before very many people even see them.