Am I the only person that doesn't really think that 10 times is that much? It wouldn't surprise me if I check it more than 30 times on days that I check it a lot.
Wake up and lay in bed for a few minutes...check HN.
Waiting in line for coffee or something? Check HN...
On hold on the phone? Check HN...
Load HN on my computer and maybe skim an article or something...
and so on.
I think that the confusion might be coming from how some of us check HN. I'm actually reading an article only very rarely, and only commenting even more rarely. Usually it's just a quick skim of the headlines to see if anything interesting is happening in the world.
How many times do some of you glance out the window when you're sitting at your desk? More than 10?
Maybe a better analogy is: how many times do you glance at the clock? The clock is meaningless to your work, it's just a status update about your surroundings. Same thing, at least to me, about HN. It isn't about actually reading anything, it's just about getting a quick status update about what's going on.
I'd bet that >70% of my visits to HN are less than a minute long.
Yes, I contemplated using the amount of time users spent on HN rather than the number of sessions in this poll. However, the former is probably harder for users to estimate.
Wake up and lay in bed for a few minutes...check HN.
Waiting in line for coffee or something? Check HN...
On hold on the phone? Check HN...
Load HN on my computer and maybe skim an article or something...
and so on.
I think that the confusion might be coming from how some of us check HN. I'm actually reading an article only very rarely, and only commenting even more rarely. Usually it's just a quick skim of the headlines to see if anything interesting is happening in the world.
How many times do some of you glance out the window when you're sitting at your desk? More than 10?
Maybe a better analogy is: how many times do you glance at the clock? The clock is meaningless to your work, it's just a status update about your surroundings. Same thing, at least to me, about HN. It isn't about actually reading anything, it's just about getting a quick status update about what's going on.
I'd bet that >70% of my visits to HN are less than a minute long.