Comment by dang
4 years ago
No, the bar for adding things to the front page needs to be super high. I think the right home for /pool is https://news.ycombinator.com/lists, which is linked from the footer. I suppose we could link /lists from the top bar, but I'm not sure it would do much good.
Pinning things to the front page in some new way would be the sort of UI disruption that users hate, and we kind of agree with them.
I like that /lists requires discovery, and I also never noticed it until I read this Meta HN, so I’m glad I did!
Interestingly, I haven't noticed lists in the footer till now and I have been a hacker news member for more than 10 yrs! You obviously have stats on how popular lists is and so will help you make that decision. I am curious if you can share what percentage of users visit lists at all?
Well, yesterday /lists got 655 hits while the front page got 1.7M. Draw your own conclusions :)
Ha thanks for the insight!
Same here, I always checked the header but never thought to check the footer (possibly didn't even realize there is a footer?) until now.