Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Nov 2008 11:44 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes As you may have noticed by now, we've introduced a little something called 'page 2' (look to your right). We added this feature because we felt we needed a way to 'tier' the news we publish on OSNews, because a regular (and valid) complaint has been that people felt that interesting, one-of-a-kind items were being drowned out by run-of-the-mill items like software releases, short distribution reviews, and so on. Read on for a little more insight into this one.
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RE[2]: Comment by Kroc
by sbergman27 on Sun 9th Nov 2008 19:33 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by Kroc"
sbergman27
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On the other hand, in real life it might often be rather difficult to consider what is minor news only or only a gossip etc. - and thus maybe resulting in yet new row of complaints from some active readers...

Personally, I've always just ignored the stories I wasn't interested in, and read the ones I was. It's not like we have so many stories flying through here that it's hard to keep up.

I've observed that the complainers about content either just like to complain, or have an agenda. (i.e. suppress news about Ub^H^Ha distro they don't like.)

To me, "Page 2" seems like an organizational layer devoted to painting the bike-shed.

Edited 2008-11-09 19:39 UTC

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