Submissions rely on early upvotes to get to the main page, and I was wondering how many people actually visit "newest" to give those submissions a chance.

It would be nice to correlate this with people who have "Show Dead" turned on, but this is a start. Polls suffer from selection bias, but it might be interesting.

Pick whichever is closest ...

If by newest you mean new, then I check it several times a day. It's a nice way of finding interesting content and submissions that will never make it to the Frontpage either because of bad timing or whatever reason.

I wonder about the bias in this survey as it goes from newest to the main page.

From one that only ever opens the main page.

Where/what is newest? I see a “new” on the top page, is that what is meant?

Usually when I've submitted something myself.

If I get past page 3 without seeing anything interesting I will generally try new.

Change the link text from new to newest. Use the big word.

Very rarely, showdead on

Every time I come to HN, I go to newest first before really looking at the main page.

Couple of times a year.

Twice a year

I don't even know how to check newest except by accident.

I use https://hckrnews.com/ . I prefer new over upvoted.

I rarely go to the front page.

I usually go through https://brutalist.report/ rather than HN's own 'new' link. It seems to filter out a lot of slop and self-promotion.