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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Member since:2005-07-24
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
Member since:2005-07-08
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.)
Yeah, sadly that seems to be the case all too often, and it gets quite irritating too. But that's not the whole issue.
Let's take the Fedora wallpaper news as an example. I was one of the people who asked if the news was worth publishing - but certainly not because I wouldn't like Fedora (Fedora is one of my favorite Linux distributions), nor because of the joy of complaining for complaining's sake.
There are many news that may not be worth putting on the front page while maybe still worth publishing.
Putting only major news on front pages works very well for newspapers and magazines, so why wouldn't it work here on OSnews (or on other news sites in general) too?
Edited 2008-11-09 20:00 UTC
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2005-07-08
Good points (like we can see from your comment score too). Done that way, Page 2 could be a very good idea.
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... But everything has its pros and cons.
Personally I see Page 2 as a good way to improve the quality of this site.