Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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 ...

21 points | by ColinWright 2 hours ago

14 comments

chistev 8 minutes ago
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.
PowerElectronix 31 minutes ago
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.
1over137 20 minutes ago
Where/what is newest? I see a “new” on the top page, is that what is meant?
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- bstsb 10 minutes ago
  it’s referring to the page available at /newest - the “new” link leads to it
- peesem 10 minutes ago
  yes, the "new" anchor links to /newest
s_dev 23 minutes ago
Usually when I've submitted something myself.
techteach00 21 minutes ago
If I get past page 3 without seeing anything interesting I will generally try new.
econ 19 minutes ago
Change the link text from new to newest. Use the big word.
GaryBluto 13 minutes ago
Very rarely, showdead on
theandrewbailey 2 hours ago
Every time I come to HN, I go to newest first before really looking at the main page.
mhitza 36 minutes ago
Couple of times a year.
abcd_f 24 minutes ago
Twice a year
SanjayMehta 21 minutes ago
I don't even know how to check newest except by accident.
josefritzishere 19 minutes ago
I use https://hckrnews.com/ . I prefer new over upvoted.
manfromchina1 2 hours ago
I rarely go to the front page.
CamperBob2 30 minutes ago
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.