Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

I rarely go to the front page.

Every time I come to HN, I go to newest first before really looking at the main page.

Couple of times a year.

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.

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.

Twice a year

Usually when I've submitted something myself.

I don't even know how to check newest except by accident.

If I get past page 3 without seeing anything interesting I will generally try new.

Where/what is newest? I see a “new” on the top page, is that what is meant?

I use https://hckrnews.com/ . I prefer new over upvoted.

Change the link text from new to newest. Use the big word.

Very rarely, showdead on

If by newest you mean new, then I check it several times a day. It's a nice way of finding interesting content and submissions that will never make it to the Frontpage either because of bad timing or whatever reason.

Whenever I interact with the main posts of Hackernews and I am interested for more, which happens almost multiple times per day or atleast once a day.

Ironically, I use "new" on other sites to bypass their algorithms and see the raw stream. But I've never even had the urge here, nor really remembered it exists.

It's probably because I have always looked at HN as a sort of amusement or curiosity. The curated listing is part of the entertainment. Not because it usually resonates for me, but because it gives me this glimpse into Otherness. The comments can be more resonant, once in a while.

It's a bit like wandering through the bar district and finding your old haunts missing and replaced with weird facades and fashions. But here and there, you notice some patrons are interjecting with stories eerily similar to the one on the tip of your tongue...

I go to newest when I want to check if there is an outage with GitHub or AWS or something

Sometimes I want to see what kinds of submissions are dead and one minute old.

I don’t know if this is the data point you’d like, but I forget that it exists. I forget to such a point that I’m going to check out newest now because it seems like a page I should include every visit here.

So my answer is ‘never’ but I’m working on it. I keep showdead turned on.

Edit - I have been making a big mistake here for a long time. Newest is a heck of a good page and I need to make visiting it into a habit. Thanks for posting this poll; I wouldn’t have remembered that I forgot about a feature without this.

Only when I post, because I’m superstitious that if I don’t upvote new posts no one is gonna upvote mine.

It doesn’t work.

I consume the RSS firehose exclusively, so I guess the answer is "constantly". I have no idea which submissions are highly voted.

I only have "new" here, and not "newest". Am I missing something?

I use /active more then /newest because I often am looking for a discussion already happening so I can learn from others.

I feel that new is wasted on me because I'm not confident that my own thoughts on what's interesting and worth front page promotion is well... interesting to the community.

I feel like newest is almost always spam, or low quality things. I have showdead on, so I'm kind of biased though.

I’ve almost entirely moved to /newest because there’s almost no point in discussion anymore

I still comment on main threads out of habit but im probably 10% as active as a decade ago once a top comment gets locked into a thread nothing else matters and there’s no discussion around the edges

All the “AI” debates are played out and boring with basically anyone still excited about anything related to AI treated poorly by people who have basically no expertise in it but mad capitalist automation came for their job