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Right, so we're pondering on adding new nexuses to the site for the next upgrade (planned for December but could end up being later depending on circumstances). Why bother adding new nexuses? Primarily so you can easily filter them out from your settings page. For example, say we had added a Games nexus. Not interested in gaming? Preferences->Homepage and put a dot in the far left (X) radio button next to Games and you will not see anything from the Games nexus on the main page. Mind you, we don't have nexus functionality built into the rss/atom feeds, yet, so they'll still show up there.
Keep in mind you can also browse nexuses independently, so you catch stories only from that nexus. Independent rss/atom feeds are coming sooner or later as well. Nexuses aren't entirely about what you don't want to see.
As of now we've got Games and Liberty on the table as new nexuses to go with Breaking News and Meta. Including more or less duplicating some Topics, what nexuses would you lot like to see go live? Last note here, any nexus we create will be fair game to sub stories in that category for. Don't suggest sports unless you want to give the green flag to subs on NASCAR.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:13AM
I like this idea, but we'd need to have high standards to make sure we don't publish a rant. I'd suggest plenty of links and ample evidence (with bias to be expected) to back up the editorial.
Hmm… I'm not sure this would work. It's still an interesting possibility. We'd want to avoid the Bennett Haselton effect. On the other hand, maybe giving potential Bennett Haseltons a nexus would be a good way to corral them and expose them only to users that are interested. I'm embarrassed to admit that I occasionally read those submissions in full on the other site and would probably enable this nexus.