But to give you a more substantive response, I think the tastemakers are not in control in the slightest. Everything about Notion now screams "we don't give a crap about note-taking or personal wikis, we want a piece of that juicy enterprise market".
I think that’s got a similar bias as the original, unfortunately. All deleted indices between K and N (K<N) will result in picking N, and the number of such deletions would vary wildly between individual articles.
I’m shocked at the method for picking a random page. It’s guaranteed to produce permanent biases in the randomization and lots of path dependence in how individual articles’ chances change over time. Picking a random int from 1 to N is not rocket science.
This makes me wonder if there isn’t some intentional weighting going on, e.g. certain favored pages get space in front of them cleared out so they’re more likely to pop up.
I get your point, but "losing interest" can also mean losing flow, because the user got interrupted for five seconds instead of instantly taking the next action in their mental plan.
When apps have these kinds of interruptions all over the place, that's even worse than just having them at startup.