We're trying out some new ways of finding links on reddit. As the rate of submission increases on reddit, it is becoming harder and harder for a link to jump out of the crowd. We have a new page located at http://reddit.com/rising to try solve this problem.
The articles on this page are sorted by the number of times they have been viewed somewhere on reddit (whether on the new page, the hot page, or somewhere else). The fewer the views, the higher a link will appear. A link's score also helps it stay higher in the list as well. The net effect is that it's basically the newest page, but "sticky." Links that didn't get a chance to be seen because too many other links were submitted at the same time will now be displayed more often.
It is going to take a little time for the page to reach a balance and start working as we expect, but after a little while it should even out. I'm going to try and use it instead of the new page for a day or so and see how it goes.
One other thing we added tonight is a feature to automatically fix New York Times links that require a login. From now on, these links should go to the same NY Times story, but on a page that doesn't require a login.
