Browsing by new was great in the early days of the first Kbin expansion, right after the reddit migration. I got to see all sorts of posts from interesting communities. Things you wouldn’t normally see browsing under ‘Hot’. Eventually, as thread numbers increase, I found myself using ‘Hot’ almost exclusively because it delivered good content. However, I did miss all the random stuff that would pop out in ‘New’. If the lack of upvotes means ‘Hot’ is equal to ‘New’, I think that’s kind of cool actually. Granted, it’s cool because it’s (hopefully) temporary.
What are you talking about? Upvotes are plenty possible on kbin.
Have you tried it recently? It brings you to an error page.