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I agree. I would argue that I get a lot more value out of the comments than than the linked content.

The only major issue I have with the comments on HN is that early ones get a lot more upvotes, causing later--but just as valid--points of view to be lost.

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The early bird gets the worm and the early comment gets the karma.

Maybe a dynamic system that randomly shows an order weighted on upvotes in the past X minutes. That’d give fresh comments a chance to compete.

When a discussion is interesting enough for me to want to follow it, I will search the page for "minutes ago" to find the newest posts. It might be nice if new posts were highlighted for some amount of time.

That's on our list.

I have a user script for that [1]. If you visited a story's comments before, it will highlight new comments and can auto-collapse threads without new comments. Otherwise, it gives you a slider you can use to highlight the X most recent comments.

[1] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comment-trees

Hacker News temporarily lifts new comments towards the top for a couple of minutes to give them a chance of being seen.

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