If someone links to a pre-2010 blog post/article, you immediately know that it is going to be a worthwhile read.
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I don't like the fact that most of the links I see in my feed point to very recent posts. There surely was as much good stuff written before 2018, how do I discover it?
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Some people care about having their content available on the internet for as long as possible (e.g. gwern). Yes, this seems important, but it would have been much more useful if there was a way for new users to discover that content.
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Social networks need to have new content for you when you log in, so that you do not lose your interest in them and log in more often. This implies that their feed will always be mostly time-based.
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But from the outside it seems very weird and even absurd that we would want content to be ordered by creation time! Who, when looking at two books, would compare them by their creation dates?
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One way people seem to have been dealing with this is various top posts: best books of the year, daily/weekly/monthly links posts.
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Such monthly links compilations exchange timeliness for quality: the links in them are less timely, but presumably selected from a large pool of candidates, so they are of higher quality.
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