In the past few days, I've felt that stories have stayed on the front page longer than usual.<p>Right now, I see a lot of stories that I saw this morning or maybe even yesterday (e.g. the Higgs boson cartoon, the Flip ship, the next Microsoft, PageRank and soccer, MVC/MOVE…). A couple have a lot of points but the Flip story for example has "only" 230 points and 27 comments but is 18 hours old. Fairly unusual it seems.<p>Not that this is necessarily a bad thing and it could just be that there have been less visitors or something else… but I'm curious.
I had the same feeling, to a point where, wanting to send some link replying to a friend, I am condfident that story will still be on the first/second page.<p>These two may help see what's happening <a href="http://hn4d.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hn4d.com/</a>, <a href="http://hnrankings.info/" rel="nofollow">http://hnrankings.info/</a><p>For the time being, I'll skip the pleasure of investigating.<p>Edit: I am also very often surprised that something showing in /newest feed (even 1st, 2nd page of /newest), shows on front page, too.
Do you think it might be that there are fewer quality articles submitted? Or a greater number of stories submitted in general making it less likely that a story gains significant traction?<p>I have no opinion one way or the other. Just curious why you think the an algo change is the explanation?