It would also be interesting, if this actually makes it to the front page to see the reasons why people don't go to the new page. Is it because they are only looking for the "best", or a quick flash of trends, or because they are bored and flick between hn and facebook?
EDIT: And would a better system be to interlace new posts with top posts on a single news page?
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It would also be interesting, if this actually makes it to the front page to see the reasons why people don't go to the new page. Is it because they are only looking for the "best", or a quick flash of trends, or because they are bored and flick between hn and facebook?
EDIT: And would a better system be to interlace new posts with top posts on a single news page?
I only occasionally read it. There's two main reasons why I don't do so more regularly:
1) There seems to be quite a lot of low-quality content (blogspam, etc.)
2) I primarily read HN for the comments, and the new page stories usually don't have any comments
Because I'm often more interested in the commentary than in the article itself.
I don't read the "new" page or the front page since I interact with HN primarily through my RSS reader (I use NewsBlur).
(HN's RSS URL can be found at the bottom of the front page.)