13 points ColinWright 2 hours ago 7 comments
Submissions rely on early upvotes to get to the main page, and I was wondering how many people actually visit "newest" to give those submissions a chance.
It would be nice to correlate this with people who have "Show Dead" turned on, but this is a start. Polls suffer from selection bias, but it might be interesting.
Pick whichever is closest ...
manfromchina1 2 hours ago | parent
I rarely go to the front page.
theandrewbailey 1 hour ago | parent
Every time I come to HN, I go to newest first before really looking at the main page.
mhitza 13 minutes ago | parent
Couple of times a year.
PowerElectronix 8 minutes ago | parent
I wonder about the bias in this survey as it goes from newest to the main page.
From one that only ever opens the main page.
CamperBob2 7 minutes ago | parent
I usually go through https://brutalist.report/ rather than HN's own 'new' link. It seems to filter out a lot of slop and self-promotion.