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koheripbal on Jan 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links...

True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links. Server could return random different new posts to different users.

...and it could be every 5th post, so it's not a huge burden.

hjek on Jan 25, 2021 [–]

> True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links.

Yea, as to create some sort of fairness in "guaranteeing" each new story a minimum number of views.

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