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698 points tilt | 1 comments | 29 Sep 15 18:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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huhtenberg ◴[29 Sep 15 19:33 UTC] No.10298926[source]▶
Dan, speaking of experiments, can I pitch an idea?

    Mix a random story from the New page into the front page on each page load.
This should get more eyeballs on new submissions, with more even exposure across HN populus and ultimately increase the overall appeal of the front page material. Should make the FP a bit more dynamic too.
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samstave ◴[29 Sep 15 19:38 UTC] No.10298971[source]▶
Let me propose an alternative:

In my profile, similar to [show dead] - let me select the number of new posts to randomly show...

And another idea: always show posts with word [xyz] in title...

Edit: and finally; collapsible threads please

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1. krapp ◴[29 Sep 15 19:43 UTC] No.10299016[source]▶
Let me try to distill this even further - let people have better control of the way list pages and threads are sorted. Filters like that could easily be added through the user control panel and applied as query strings without affecting the appearance of the rest of the site. Being able to sort a thread by most recent comments rather than just karma would be great.