Poll: How do you consume HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368964

by riskish • 15 years ago

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JoachimSchipper• 15 years ago

I don't think many people who read HN monthly will respond...

timrobinson• 15 years ago

Maybe they'll respond in a month.

lolizbak• 15 years ago

There's like 10 jewels an hour, executing a good digest would be a big challenge ... :)

nkohari• 15 years ago

Isn't this poll going to be extremely biased towards people reading it on the main site, since that's the only place you can comment? :)

zyfo• 15 years ago

Indeed. A poll doesn't say much if anything at all if one does not account for self-selection bias.

Today I'm reading the main site, normally I would be reading a daily/weekly/monthly digest. Today I'm commenting, any other day I probably wouldn't. I'm still the same person.

AndrewDucker• 15 years ago

I saw it via RSS, and then clicked through to comment.

andrewcurioso• 15 years ago

The RSS feed users can just click the link and post comments as well.

allard• 15 years ago

mostly via Reader, occasionally via mobile app

ekidd• 15 years ago

Via a Xoom port of Amir's HNdroid, but I haven't added poll support yet so I can't vote. :-)

antidaily• 15 years ago

Twitter feed is useful as well.

MochaMocha• 15 years ago

I reader headlines in Reader. If it's compelling I click into comments/link.

GiraffeNecktie3• 15 years ago

Wow. A sobering reminder to me that even for a tech-savvy readership, only about ten percent are using RSS. Maybe this warrants another survey on why people don't use RSS.

akkartik6• 15 years ago

I use RSS a lot but I wouldn't use it for HN. You miss out on the ordering of stories on the frontpage and the browsing of comments.

GiraffeNecktie3• 15 years ago

What's significant or interesting about the ordering of stories on the frontpage?

I still have a link to comments for each story in Google Reader (although I don't get the number of comments). What I gain with Reader is the ability to mark all as read and therefore the ability to see what's new since the last time I checked.

sibsibsib• 15 years ago

the rss feed works well for me in google reader. It allows me to keep track of what I've read and what I haven't.

If it seems like the comments might be interesting I just click the 'comments' link.

Jebdm3• 15 years ago

I click through for comments, and find the front-page ordering pretty awful (people tend to vote up the less technical articles more, probably since there's a lower barrier to entry; also, articles in the same genre as the recent influx of stories about Color/etc., which I couldn't care less about, tend to get voted up a lot). And as someone else mentioned, it doesn't mark stories as read, which is a Big Deal for me.

makethetick• 15 years ago

I've noticed that not all posts show up in my RSS reader, I guess it's because of the large number of posts vs the pickup schedule on google reader.

akkartik6• 15 years ago

Shameless plug: I'm still using the realtime UI I showed here a few weeks ago (http://hackerstream.com, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871)

People sometimes think it's only useful if you're consuming HN all the time, but it turns out it's just another random slice of HN, one that's guaranteed to be all new no matter how often you check.

bryanlarsen• 15 years ago

hckrnews.com for me.

nicksergeant• 15 years ago

Yes. The only way I'm able to spend a reasonable about of time on here.

riskish• 15 years ago

if anyone wants me to add a choice let me know

pseale• 15 years ago

I only see stories over 100 points via: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100

...except if I get bored on a Friday and look at new topics, which explains how I saw this link in the first place...

u48998• 15 years ago

I would like to know how to subscribe RSS feeds of the comments of the individual stories (not all comments, but comments on the threads like this one).

auxbuss• 15 years ago

Up'd rss feed, but I do it via the Newsfox plug-in in FF.

jordo37• 15 years ago

I use both the site and the rss feed into Google Reader. I use the site throughout the day to keep track of anything important rising to the top and then use the RSS feed to make sure I didnt miss anything critical as well as to archive for search with all my other online "memories" in Reader.

Tiomaidh• 15 years ago

I get a daily email made from the RSS feed. That way I can quickly scroll through things (clicking on the links that seem interesting) and know that I haven't missed anything without junking up Google Reader.

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