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

[finn c.]

Hi,

I don't mean to belittle your proposals, but could we discuss these
after the upgrade? Both of these depend on things which are technical
unknowns, and I really need to be spending time upgrading our basic
software and not worrying about the details.

I would be suprised if there wasn't a way to implement both of these
proposals though.

Seeya,
finn

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:24:05AM +1300, Danyl Strype wrote:
> 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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