[Imc-aotearoa-tech] PROPOSALS: 1) Inverting newswire 2) next/ previous links

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou,

Looked at the Tech Process on the site the idea day -
something I had completely forgotten about! So here are my
proposals to see if they are technically possible, then if
they are I will post them on imc-aotearoa again for discussion.

1) Inverting the Newswire

I believe I first proposed this on the imc-aotearoa list. It
came to me in a flash in the middle of the night and I
leaped out of bed and turned the computer on to email it in
so I didn´t forget.

I am suggesting that the newswire is currently upside-down.
New and casual readers will tend to look at the top stories
first. Yet these are the stories least likely to have been
reviewed by the ed volunteers to make sure they do not
breach the editorial policy.

I propose that the newswire should be inverted, with stories
appearing at the bottom and getting pushed up the page as
newer stories appear. Ed team should then aim to have
performed any neccesary moderation by the time a story hits
the middle of the newswire. Anyone who particularly wants to
get a raw feed can do so through RSS or by reading stories
in the bottom of the newswire.

2) next/ previous links

It is a minor annoyance that there is no obvious way to 
read through the newswire from start to finish without going
back to the newswire or front page between each story. I
propose to add ´next´ and ´previous´ links to the newswire
to make this possible. I understand it may not be unless
there is a way of rejoining the chain whenever a post is
hidden. If it isn´t perhaps the next/ previous links could
link through all stories, whether showing or hidden, with a
clear warning that it is an unmoderated way of browsing the
site?

Thoughts?

RnB,
Strypey

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