On: Ask HN: Make the front page bigger?

[minimaxir]

"Promoting unseen content" won't be solved by increasing the size of the front page because the amount of traffic and attention a post receives is directly proportional to the absolute ranking (anedotally, posts from my blog which hit the Top 5 got 3-5x the concurrent traffic than posts at the bottom of the front page).

Adding more entries to the front page won't help at all.

[jflatow → minimaxir]

I believe you that #30 < #5. Partly because if you ever hit #5 the total amount of time you spent on front page is greater.

I'm really curious about the jump from #30 -> #31 though.

a) what's the total drop in activity? b) how much has this changed in the past year? c) is there a 'better' cutoff to choose?