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Announcing… the OSNews Digest

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Have you ever gone on vacation and missed a day’s news? Ever have a busy day and need to quickly catch up on what you missed? Well, your problems are solved with the new OSNews Digest. Read on for details. UPDATED

As part of our OSNews version 3 upgrade, we’re proud to present The OSNews Digest. The Digest is an email publication that includes the headlines and “teasers” of the news posted on osnews.com each day. Currently, The Digest is a daily publication, but we will be offering a weekly version in the near future.

To subscribe to the OSNews Digest, simply login, visit your your preferences page, and select your digest preference. Each day, you can expect to see an email containing the latest technology related news.

The digest is still a work in progress, so we may change the format slightly, but if you want a preview of The OSNews Digest, you can click here.

UPDATE
I have activated the weekly and “originals” digest. The weekly digest will be sent out once a week and contain headlines. Our “Originals” digest is also sent out weekly, and contains just the original articles from the last 7 days.

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33 Comments

  1. 2005-07-11 7:12 pm
    Thom Holwerda

    Great stuff Adam, I’m still amazed at what you and Eugenia have pulled of in v3!

  2. 2005-07-11 7:30 pm
    Hentai

    Nice idea, hopefully it works out good.

  3. 2005-07-11 7:33 pm
    vinterbleg

    I’m on already. This is a great idea for those of us who visit regularly and don’t want to miss anything. 🙂 Especially when I’m going to move tomorrow and will be without internet for a few days…

    – Simon

  4. 2005-07-11 8:01 pm
    aaron

    Hi there,

    You guys have done a great job with the new version of the site.

    Keep up the good work !

    Regards

    Aaron

  5. 2005-07-11 8:45 pm
    Joe User

    Kudos to the OSNews staff who work hard as volunteers.

    I prefer OSNews to Slashdot.

  6. 2005-07-11 9:23 pm
    Anonymous

    It would be nice to have a weekly osnews podcast.

  7. 2005-07-11 9:41 pm
    Mike

    The daily digest is great and I’ve subscribed but I wonder if a weekly digest may be more appropriate for some – I would rather spend a hour a week catching up than quickly skimming a daily update. Anyone else agree?

    • 2005-07-11 9:43 pm
      orestes

      I’d definitely prefer a weekly format.

  8. 2005-07-11 9:48 pm
    JrezIN

    Great! I’m looking forward to the weekly digest! =]

    …And what about a higher number of stories in the front page? now that the number of stories per day is higher too…

  9. 2005-07-11 9:48 pm
    Anonymous

    OSNews.com never posts anything that you won’t find on every other stupid Linux-oriented tech site. If you want an archive of OSNews material from day n, just look at Slashdot’s archive for day n-3.

  10. 2005-07-11 9:52 pm
    Adam Scheinberg

    I’ve already written the weekly digest, the problem is, we haven’t found a good format for it. Should it just be titles? Or should it be an enormous email with 80 headlines? I don’t think our users (or our server!) would be happy about a 1.5 MB plain text email every week. I’m much sooner just sent titles.

    What would ya’ll like to see?

    • 2005-07-11 10:25 pm
      Anonymous

      I wouldn’t mind the 1.5 MB. It is only one week after all.

      • 2005-07-11 10:58 pm
        Anonymous

        I would prefer the weekly e-mail – with headlines, catch-lines, and a direct link to the article. I don’t think a text e-mail will be very big. I just copied the last seven days’ worth of headlines and catch-lines into a text editor, and it was only 20KB – with links and some frilly additions and any encodings, that should only come out to 50KB at the most. Plus, it’s the same, or even less load than sending seven daily e-mails (you could schedule the weekly e-mails to send out on different days to share the load out across the week). If you are really worried out bandwidth, headlines-only would work I guess, but might cause additional load on the servers because of users having less information for people to decide which articles they are interested in.

    • 2005-07-11 10:32 pm
      orestes

      Titles and a direct link to each story would work for me.

    • 2005-07-11 10:33 pm
      aaron

      I think the top 10 highest rated news Headlnes.

      For example..

      Dear aaronb

      Here is this weeks most recommended osnews

      Announcing… the OSNews Digest – Rating 8.67/10 – 1,000,000 votes

      Have you ever gone on vacation and missed a day’s news? Ever have a busy day and need to quickly catch up on what you missed? Well, your problems are solved with the new OSNews Digest. Read on for details.

      Read more here http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11186

      OSDL Boss Hints At Microsoft Collaboration – Rating {I cannot rate this item} – 0 Votes

      The head of Open Source Development Labs, Stuart Cohen, has added weight to rumours of greater collaboration between Microsoft and the open source community. He said: “I would not be surprised to see them participate in software that runs on top of Linux in the future.”

      Read more here

  • 2005-07-12 3:06 pm
    aaron

    Hi there

    Please could you post a link to the HTML version. It world be realy good if it kept the feel as the site. For example the light lime green and ligh gray brown colours.

    In the text version it noticed that it gave a slot for adds. Please, please do not link pictures off the net in the HTML email. Instead use text like google adds that blend in.

    Most if not all pictures in spam can not be read at all as the get blocked by Kmail, Outlook and evolution.

    Thanks

    aaronb

  • 2005-07-11 10:33 pm
    jediknight9999

    This is great! I like the new features. Keep up the good work!

  • 2005-07-11 10:41 pm
    Anonymous

    OSNews.com never posts anything that you won’t find on every other stupid Linux-oriented tech site. If you want an archive of OSNews content from day n, just look at Slashdot’s archive for day n-3, or if you want an archive of OSNews comments, just view Slashdot at -1 for a similar caliber of material.

  • 2005-07-11 10:43 pm
    ponytail

    Great idea! I would find this a handy way after a long day at work to be able to see what news there is. A weekly version is also a good idea.Keep up the great work!

  • 2005-07-11 11:52 pm
    Anonymous

    I hate threaded view.

    • 2005-07-11 11:54 pm
      Adam Scheinberg

      How can I read this thread nested […] I hate threaded view.

      Well, genius, you’re not reading it threaded. You’re reading it flat. We’ll look to implement some form of threading in a future version.

      • 2005-07-12 12:50 am
        Anonymous

        I apologize, I as you can see am not a very frequent visitor of osnews. But now and then I do visit this site.

        I just hated to have lost the flat view to get a threaded view. Personally I’m a nested view guy myself. But flat is good enough on a site like osnews. I see now that the default is flat (yippee)

        —

        How about some real forum software for the osnews forums?! Untill now I always avoided osnews forums in favour of: http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=1

        Because I just hate the primitive look and feel of osnews forums, how intelligent the conversations may have been or are.

  • 2005-07-12 2:30 am
    youknowmewell

    You could always have the top 5 stories include both the headline and the summary, and for the rest just the headline. The top 5 would be the stories with the most comments. Or you could have 2 top 5 lists, one which is judged by the most comments and the other would be an “Editor’s Top 5” list chosen by the editors (you could take turns or something).

  • 2005-07-12 9:58 am
    Anonymous

    YESSSS

  • 2005-07-12 11:09 am
    Nalle

    I think the whole v3 of OSNews is coming out just fine. A few small adjustments might be needed here and there, but no biggies as far as I can see.

    I too like the weekly digest idea, even if I personally think I’ll still prefer the daily one *wide smile*.

    I think keeping the familiar UI is the best idea – one get kind’a committed when one make an UI that people like and get used to.

    I’ve been a faithful reader of OSNews for years and I’m not about to change that!

  • 2005-07-12 1:09 pm
    k.g.stoyanov

    cool site, im here everyday, but today i registered myself 8-)cheers!

  • 2005-07-12 2:11 pm
    lord-storm

    How about mail for Windows.. unix or any of the other specifications of news you have. Titles are not enough so description is all good. And dont forget the text only for those that dont like HTML.

    • 2005-07-12 2:46 pm
      aaron

      Maybe in the Preferences it will be possible to pick Text or HTML.

      A daily digest is too much for me it is almost like spam but a weekly digest is cool.

      • 2005-07-12 3:05 pm
        Adam Scheinberg

        No, no HTML right now. I would love to do it, but for now, it’s text only.

        At some point, it’s pretty likely we’ll introduce an HTML version though.

    • 2005-07-12 3:06 pm
      Adam Scheinberg

      Right now, this is not possible and isn’t one of the goals. But it’s an interesting thought – notifcation when something is posted in a chosen topic.

  • 2005-07-12 8:25 pm
    Anonymous

    This is great, can we include an option to filter out the boring news and to only include the important original topics such as:

    1. A new security flaw in IE

    2. “Is Linux ready for the Desktop?”

    3. KDE V GNOME flamewar

    4. How the Qt license sucks.

    Then it would be perfect.

  • 2005-07-12 10:09 pm
    Anonymous

    If Adam or David or Thorn are listenning, could you please make it that when you post something, you are returned to the same page you were reading, and not to the beginning?