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With the new ownership at the old green site looking to improve things there, I hope we have a similar discussion going on here someplace. My guess is it is happening on IRC. The underlying code seems pretty solid, so there isn't much in the mechanics I'd change.
One thing that concerns me is our delay in posting threads compared to them. It seems fairly consistent they have the first strike over 80% of the time when running similar stories. If you read both sites, and I'm assuming many still do, why would you want to re-read threads on a topic you saw earlier in the day or even a day or two before? Shouldn't our goal to be the faster, more intelligent version of a Slash-based site?
The news latest round of Yahoo layoffs broke yesterday evening, February 2nd. Slashdot posted the story this morning yet the story here is sitting waiting in the queue, and isn't going to appear on the main page until tonight. So if I want to comment, I have to either wait on it, or go post on the green site, or elsewhere. That's not what I want to do.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 03 2016, @06:58PM
+1. Add to that that you can't read a submission anymore when it's in the Pending queue (why not?) and that posted stories are often unchanged or barely different from their submission.
When Springer released a bunch of their books for free, [soylentnews.org] the offer (or fuck-up) was already over when the story came onto the front page. I was lucky enough to see it in the submission queue, but others missed out!
Does it take that long to think up a good from-the-dept. line?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 04 2016, @11:27PM
Fair nuff. I'll talk to paulej72 and the Eds about changing that after we get done with this weekend's site update.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday February 04 2016, @11:31PM
Read my reply to this journal to see our perspective on why stories come out late.
TL;DR we have long intervals between stories, accepted submissions tend to be thrown at the end of the queue, and stuff.
It's not that it takes us long to think of a dept. line. Take this week for example. We had so many submissions, that we were able to post them nearly 48 hours in advance. But in that case it also means a submission that we accepted on Monday doesn't get seen until Wednesday.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 10 2016, @05:44AM
tldr: editing > timeliness > spacing IMO
If delays are used primarily for editing the stories that's a very good thing, but if they're used as a way of spacing out the stories in time so the site's main page isn't empty, I see little value there and would prefer to see those 48 stories on Monday and none on the following Tuesday or Wednesday, rather than read them after a delay of a day or two. The "Yesterday's News" link is easy enough to find.
What happens with respect to other news aggregation sites shouldn't matter, unless it becomes grounds for them to sue.
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