One simple idea to improve HN story quality

5 points by keizo 15y ago ↗ HN

Get more eyes and therefore more quality votes on new submissions. How often do you look at the new page? I don't. It's too hard.

This idea is stupidly simple. Just make a two column layout. Might work, might not. Try it for a couple days and see what happens!

mockup: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/150723/test.html

4 comments

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keizo 15y ago ↗

clickable: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/150723/test.html

messel 15y ago ↗

Was thinking two iframes when I read the ask. Always helpful to see it live and consider it's utility in practice.

noodle 15y ago ↗

i prefer a combination of other suggestions in the giant thread:

1) hide points

2) on the front page, randomly pepper in new submissions. like, perhaps the top 5 will always be the true top 5, but the rest of the front page will have 5 random "new" items inserted in random positions.

tgrass 15y ago ↗

I ONLY look at the new page. The front page I can get from my facebook feed.