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posted by janrinok on Monday October 19 2015, @07:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-voice dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by fleg on Tuesday October 20 2015, @03:09AM

    by fleg (128) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 20 2015, @03:09AM (#252154)

    games, meta and breaking news are fairly clear, but what would liberty cover?
    my concern is that it coule be too broad to be meaningful unless you have a specific narrow
    definition in mind?

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  • (Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Tuesday October 20 2015, @08:26AM

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Tuesday October 20 2015, @08:26AM (#252210) Journal

    How about a nexus for FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS ?

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:27AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:27AM (#252244) Homepage Journal

    Basically anything that's more political than science/tech-related. With an outer boundary of someone besides the submitter must be likely to find it interesting.

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    • (Score: 2) by fleg on Wednesday October 21 2015, @02:26AM

      by fleg (128) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 21 2015, @02:26AM (#252570)

      >Basically anything that's more political than science/tech-related.

      ok that works for me and that area of cross-over of political and science/tech was what i
      was concerned about (i realise now).

      does make me think tho that maybe a general political nexus would be a good idea.

      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday October 21 2015, @02:15PM

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 21 2015, @02:15PM (#252743) Journal

        I agree that this should be a Political nexus - not liberty. We get loads of political submissions, especially in the protracted run up to the US elections. Having their own nexus would be good to keep them in one place and help others filter them out should they wish to do so.