So, as per usual, I like to occasionally check the pulse on the community to make sure that people for the most part are happy and satisfied with the day-to-day operation of the site. For those of you who are new to the community, first, let me welcome you and explain how these work.
When I open the floor to the community, the intent is to provide a venue to discuss anything related to site operations, content, and anything along those lines. I actively review and comment on these posts, and if one issue pops up multiple times in comments, I generally run follow up articles to try and help address issues the community feels is important before someone decides to take rehash and form a spinoff. Feel free to leave whatever thoughts you want below.
In contrary to my usual posts, I don't have that much to say to this, so to both the community and editorial team's relief, I'll cut this off right here before it becomes Yet Another NCommander Novel.
~ NCommander
(Score: 4, Insightful) by dbe on Monday November 07 2016, @03:22PM
I'm pretty happy with the mix of stories, in general, I should try to submit more often though.
My personal grip is a bug that was in previous /. but they seems to have corrected it since:
We have a "previous day" link at the end of the page, it would be great to change it to "previous stories" instead to avoid duplication of a few stories at the top of the list.
In other word most of the time the last few stories on the front page are also part of the "previous day" page.
In any case thanks to all the technical team, editors and community it is for me one of the best site I have in my usual link liste.
Cheers
-dbe
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @03:31PM
I find this mildly annoying as well. Other than that things are great.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @03:54PM
Truthfully, it annoys the piss out of me as well. I'm just uncertain what percentage of the community would bitch if we changed it to "previous N stories" though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday November 07 2016, @04:37PM
I actually rather like the fact that the "archive" stories track by day. It was surprising at first, but I find it more intuitive at times now. It's especially nice when checking in on an older story to see if any new comments appeared, since it will continue to appear in the same place. It's also helpful to get oriented if I've been away from reading for a couple of days, since the "break" between what I already saw and what's new will occur in a somewhat predictable place.
But I wouldn't object to the other way.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @04:47PM
I'd kind of like to have a calendar where you could just click a day and it would display all of that day's stories then move the links on the main page to display the next N stories regardless of date. Best of both worlds but a goodly bit of work getting a calendar layout done properly.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.