See the `Lists` section at the footer for more options, but the `/classic` endpoint seems to be an easter-egg? (not in the "documentation" links possible in the footer):
Edit: well, there's /topcomments - but I'm going to recycle that name for /bestcomments, since those aren't the best comments, just the most-upvoted ones
Quoting the answer (by pg): "It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the site is declining. In practice it's usually just a slower-changing version of the frontpage."
That doesn't seem like a meaningful takeaway unless those first-year users are also only seeing the "classic" homepage.
Most people aren't individually reviewing new-page submissions, they're voting for stuff that's already popular on the default frontpage. First-year users aren't immune to this— they're primarily voting up stuff that others already voted for. So it makes perfect sense that "classic" under this model would be a delayed version of default; indeed, one should expect that result with any randomly selected 10% of the voting userbase.
The irony of change over time being seen as decline on a tech forum. Let's all put our brains in glass jars in virtual static universes so our thoughts and behaviors don't change
I use dark reader, but I just know one day I'll wake up to news that it had secretly been sold a month prior and had been doing all kinds of nefarious things. This is inherently a problem with browser extensions that both auto-update and basically require access to every website.
Good thing that more and more site and apps are supporting dark modes as time passes. Many supports automatic switching based on OS/browser setting as well, what is great.
I dream with the day where this extension won't be needed anymore. Hopefully HN itself will support it someday.
HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271 - May 2009 (107 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611251 (May 2009)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830485 (Sept 2009)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1619602 (Aug 2010)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809683 (Oct 2010)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513 (Jan 2011)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166229 (Oct 2011)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025810 (May 2012)
I posted this about it a couple years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787385 (Jan 2021)
Edit: maybe we should add a query param so you can decide how ancient you want the contributing upvoters to be