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How often should SoylentNews plan to post stories?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by mindriot on Tuesday March 04 2014, @11:34AM
Personally, I'd like a mix of regular and breaking-news updates. In general, a regular update cycle is fine for me. I don't care whether it's every 30, 60 or 90 minutes, I'll leave it to you to find the right workload that editors can handle without hurting the editorial quality. I think there will be the occasional breaking-news item that would benefit from being posted sooner. Again, though, do not trade quality for speed here. Posting sooner doesn't have to mean "right this second"; 10 to 15 minutes of thinking about it are always fully acceptable.
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(Score: 2) by randmcnatt on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:27PM
I like the mix, but maybe back off on the number of articles in a day. Not everyone has unlimited hours available to read stories, peruse comments, reply, and (occasionally) moderate.
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(Score: 1) by jmoschner on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:46PM
Breaking news (when actually is breaking news) should always be pushed out right away and edited to keep the information accurate and up to date.
The release rate for other news stories should be based on when people are actually visiting the site. If the community is constantly checking in through out the day, releasing content more frequently is probably a good idea. If they are only checking in once ot twice a day, then the release rate doesn't need to be as frequent.
I would also sugest deciding how many non-breaking news stories you think should be released within a given day. I think I saw 14 or so on the front page for today so far. If I were to check in off and on all day that might be fine, if I only get to check in once a day that might be too many to have up by 2pm est. There is a balance that needs to be struck between quantity and quality.
(Score: 2) by Jerry Smith on Sunday March 09 2014, @12:15PM
And that's perhaps a good insight. What if the flood could be personalised? Five (not too much, just enough to sort it a bit) categories which can be checked or unchecked, thus enabling to streamline the frontpage. OR two landing pages: one personalised and one regular. Like when I have time to burn I'd hang out on the regular one, when time is a tad more precious (like lunchbreak) I could scan through the personalised one.
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