"Better" is certainly an opinion anyone is entitled too form, but I find it interesting that you can perceive a "more", when it only takes a quick scroll down the first page to see where the two day old stale threads begin.
The fact that there are 1 week old threads left lingering on the first page suggests, to me, that there is "less" of everything.
This is my perspective: If someone cuts down all the alder trees in a forest and leaves all the swamp ash will it seem pertinent when an observer exclaims "wow it looks like there are more swamp ash trees than there were the last time I looked"?