I'm one of those people who might be perceived as "crawling" against the "More" link.
I use a Firefox extension to pull the next 10 pages, inline. I then convert all the links to open in new tabs. I'll slowly work my way through the resulting Frankenpage.
When I first started doing this, I only pulled 5 pages, sometimes waiting a bit to then pull 5 more/deeper. I was worried about excessive use -- including triggering whatever blocking you have in place. Eventually, I tried 10 at once. I've found that 10 is about as deep as I want to go into the recent history and keeps me fairly current with daily browsing.
I hope this use isn't considered excessive. It's run just once or twice in a day, and the results are simply for personal consumption.
As I (somewhat vaguely) recall, I began doing this when and because a change made the "More" links expire more -- as in, rather -- quickly. That was a time when you were working to keep HN from bogging down and choking on its memory usage. I wanted to see a few pages into the history without a bunch of overlap and having to start over from the first page; and pulling the subsequent pages all at once worked well for me as a solution.
Perhaps my http://hckrnews.com will suit you, since it archives anything that makes it onto the homepage (without crawling against the 'More' link).
I've resisted putting RSS feeds on hckrnews, because I think RSS feeds are a poor match for the format. Number of points and number of comments combine with the link to provide information that you don't get with an RSS feed. Often the utility of a link is not obvious from the source and title only.
Well, I also enjoy finding and promoting good/relevant links that escape attention "amidst the deluge".
I also take your point that the comment links and point counts are pertinent. In particular, I will often start off with the comments rather than the linked page itself. Again, I'll have to look at the revised RSS feed, but as I recall, when I looked at it in the past, I, too, found it less useful for these aspects (unless I was viewing one of the third-party feeds that I seem to recall being created, some time back).
I suppose one could view my use / time on HN as high. OTOH, I pull the pages (i.e. this "Frankenpage") once and then slowly pay attention to them. I guess one could contrast that with another user hitting the top page every 15 minutes throughout the day.
(I do also check the new/ and classic/ front pages a few times, often later in the day. I used to drill further into new/, but I've been trying to limit my time on HN somewhat. Also, new/ is so full of spam, these days, that it's kind of discouraging -- although people need to continue to hit it and aggressively kill off the spam and other crap.)
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Completely aside, I'd like a comprehensive list of post links. I used to have some old favorites saved, but some of those were lost in a theft. I guess it might not be the healthiest thing for the HN ecosystem including system load, but I'd enjoy journeying back in time to the early days. Many of those discussions were incredibly informative and focused.
I know there are and have been a third party archives and/or views into HN, but either I didn't take the time to learn or the interface itself didn't seem to offer a simple, time-based listing.
I could comment on my sorry little life, but to what point? I'll just reiterate that, technically, the entire pull ends up in one tab. And I close the other tabs as I finish with them, one by one.
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I'm one of those people who might be perceived as "crawling" against the "More" link.
I use a Firefox extension to pull the next 10 pages, inline. I then convert all the links to open in new tabs. I'll slowly work my way through the resulting Frankenpage.
When I first started doing this, I only pulled 5 pages, sometimes waiting a bit to then pull 5 more/deeper. I was worried about excessive use -- including triggering whatever blocking you have in place. Eventually, I tried 10 at once. I've found that 10 is about as deep as I want to go into the recent history and keeps me fairly current with daily browsing.
I hope this use isn't considered excessive. It's run just once or twice in a day, and the results are simply for personal consumption.
As I (somewhat vaguely) recall, I began doing this when and because a change made the "More" links expire more -- as in, rather -- quickly. That was a time when you were working to keep HN from bogging down and choking on its memory usage. I wanted to see a few pages into the history without a bunch of overlap and having to start over from the first page; and pulling the subsequent pages all at once worked well for me as a solution.
I'll have a look at the revised RSS feed.
Perhaps my http://hckrnews.com will suit you, since it archives anything that makes it onto the homepage (without crawling against the 'More' link).
I've resisted putting RSS feeds on hckrnews, because I think RSS feeds are a poor match for the format. Number of points and number of comments combine with the link to provide information that you don't get with an RSS feed. Often the utility of a link is not obvious from the source and title only.
Well, I also enjoy finding and promoting good/relevant links that escape attention "amidst the deluge".
I also take your point that the comment links and point counts are pertinent. In particular, I will often start off with the comments rather than the linked page itself. Again, I'll have to look at the revised RSS feed, but as I recall, when I looked at it in the past, I, too, found it less useful for these aspects (unless I was viewing one of the third-party feeds that I seem to recall being created, some time back).
I suppose one could view my use / time on HN as high. OTOH, I pull the pages (i.e. this "Frankenpage") once and then slowly pay attention to them. I guess one could contrast that with another user hitting the top page every 15 minutes throughout the day.
(I do also check the new/ and classic/ front pages a few times, often later in the day. I used to drill further into new/, but I've been trying to limit my time on HN somewhat. Also, new/ is so full of spam, these days, that it's kind of discouraging -- although people need to continue to hit it and aggressively kill off the spam and other crap.)
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Completely aside, I'd like a comprehensive list of post links. I used to have some old favorites saved, but some of those were lost in a theft. I guess it might not be the healthiest thing for the HN ecosystem including system load, but I'd enjoy journeying back in time to the early days. Many of those discussions were incredibly informative and focused.
I know there are and have been a third party archives and/or views into HN, but either I didn't take the time to learn or the interface itself didn't seem to offer a simple, time-based listing.
nice work, i just switch my default of hn to yours.
Sounds like you spend way too much time on HN :D
Sir, close the tabs and walk away slowly!
I could comment on my sorry little life, but to what point? I'll just reiterate that, technically, the entire pull ends up in one tab. And I close the other tabs as I finish with them, one by one.
Thanks for the thought, though. :-)