minimum_wage recently posted a link to a post about link discovery and the ranking algorithm on Hacker News.

That led us to today's update.

Today's update does two notable things:

1. The global feeds have been consolidated into one global feed.

2. Your feed and the global feed can be sorted by 'activity' or 'time'.

Sorting a feed by 'activity' employs Hubski's ranking alogrithm, and sorting by 'time' simply sorts by the age of the post.

In making this change, we dropped the global chat feeds. They were very rarely used.

We think this new setup improves content discovery, and removes unnecessary complexity. Let us know if that's true for you.

As always, feedback is much appreciated.