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jacquesm: > If a new link isn't given one or two upvotes within a few minutes of being submitted (so that it appears on the front page), it has forever lost any hope of getting the votes it deserves.This has been a real problem, and the last two weeks it has gotten very bad indeed.The 'new' page doesn't scale.A good indicator of how big the problem is at the moment is the 'age' of the oldest item on the new page. That used to be 2 to 4 hours, now even on a 'quiet' time of the day it is only 1 hour.The reason why there is a cut-off at 210 elements for the 'new', 'saved' and 'news' pages is that this will reduce some performance bottlenecks. They're slowly getting shorter.It's a real pity, especially for the 'saved' page because that is one use of HN, as a bookmarking service.