Since last week I noticed that I can only view about 500 last submissions on HN. From front page pressing "More" at the bottom, right now, the last page I can access is page 17 [1]. The viewable submissions list is growing a little: few days ago the last page I could access was page 14. Few months ago I could easily access page 30 or further (I have never encountered a "last page" where there would be no "More" link).<p>So, is HN experiencing some technical difficulties, and once they are resolved everything will be back as before? Or this is a permanent thing from now on?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=17
We have been making several changes that affect this, with more to come. Keep in mind that /news represents <i>ranked</i> stories, and that the ranking algorithm loses precision over time, so later pages become less meaningful. If you would like to see all recent story submissions, /newest currently displays at least 3000 (around 4 days).