Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Nov 2008 11:44 UTC
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: which is more important then?
by Coxy on Thu 6th Nov 2008 12:37
in reply to "which is more important then?"
Member since:2006-07-01
Yes, keep the unique stories on the left, and have the software updates on the right. Otherwise you may as well just add another 10 items to the news display instead.
Why your at it, get rid of the other sidebar stuff and allow people to have the sidebar items display articles for particular categories of news: Google, Mac OS etc.
Edited 2008-11-06 12:39 UTC
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To me it now looks that the "interesting, one-of-a-kind items" are relegated to the sidebar, displayed in smaller size (and title only), while "run-of-the-mill items" get the prominent placement in the center of the page, with introductory text, bigger icon on the side, etc. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
And am I the only one that is almost blind to the stuff in sidebars? Good thing these stories still show up in rss.