Hacker News Reader

Could you expand on this? I struggle to think of how a site like HN or Reddit could work in a first-in-first-out fashion while also taking into account vote score. Perhaps you mean that a post's score should not decay over time and fall off the front page, or at least should do so more slowly? Or it should be able to be bumped to the front if there's new activity (comments/votes)? Would be interest to hear your thoughts

View on HN

Not OP, but you could have a priority queue where you acknowledge each element as up/down/neutral and the change in score that you provide would affect it's location in other people's queues.

well there could be more scope for playlist-style content. this especially applies to reddit and HN (and twitter I suppose, although I’d probably exempt Twitter from my criticism in the first place as it’s supposed to be a bit ephemeral and shallow). users could collate content into “playlists” which would then be voted into a no-or-slow-decay alternative frontpage

in order to allow new content to rise, you’d either need a pretty complex algorithm, or just another “new” page

Reply on news.ycombinator.com