dang wrote:
> (OP is not asking about the frontpage, but rather about https://news.ycombinator.com/ask, which shows text posts, mostly questions that usually begin with "Ask HN".) The answer is that not enough posts are getting upvoted on https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew (or https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) to clear the small threshold necessary to make it to /ask.
> This has been happening for a while. Not sure what the solution is. Sometimes I go to /asknew myself and upvote the ones that seem good enough to make it to /ask, if not the frontpage, but that's a manual operation and I rarely have time.
> I suppose we could fill in the empty slots with posts from /asknew but then not sure how we would pick them...
But it comes and goes. Last week (maybe the week before), it was 15. Then, later, it was 30 with the normal "More" link.