<Vote> What goes on the news page?
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<Vote> What goes on the news page?
Veolian Commonwealth » Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:45 pm
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Veolian Commonwealth - Faction
I'm terribly sorry to spam all your RSS feeds with my testing.
But... do you think the news page is going to work? It is still a work in progress of course, but the basic functionality is all there.
My main concern is the lack of news in a time period shorter than 1 month. The current news page uses the RSS feeds from the forum and the wiki as data sources, but if these are filtered for actual relevant news (such as rules changes, and new IC threads) very little actual news is left over.
Of course things like Open Market price corrections, starting and ending votes and such are really interesting. To enable a better list of new items, the news page would have to cache the RSS feeds from both the wiki and the forum to offer a longer 'history' of news. Having a longer history would entail more work, but would offer more information.
On the other hand, displaying stale news is not that great. So maybe we should just use the live feeds as a data source, and limit news to make sure it's not older than 1 week?
I would like your opinions on this!
But... do you think the news page is going to work? It is still a work in progress of course, but the basic functionality is all there.
My main concern is the lack of news in a time period shorter than 1 month. The current news page uses the RSS feeds from the forum and the wiki as data sources, but if these are filtered for actual relevant news (such as rules changes, and new IC threads) very little actual news is left over.
Of course things like Open Market price corrections, starting and ending votes and such are really interesting. To enable a better list of new items, the news page would have to cache the RSS feeds from both the wiki and the forum to offer a longer 'history' of news. Having a longer history would entail more work, but would offer more information.
On the other hand, displaying stale news is not that great. So maybe we should just use the live feeds as a data source, and limit news to make sure it's not older than 1 week?
I would like your opinions on this!
Veolian Commonwealth » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:26 pm
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Veolian Commonwealth - Faction
I have some more questions for you!
What does a wiki edit of the ic namespace mean in a news context? Is this an IC or OOC thing?
Is it nice to have the full news message, or shoulw we show only summaries (of up to 250 characters), and link to the actual item?
Would it be nice to have a display of faction icons next to posting senators? (Or a display of faction icons for any faction mentioned in the post?)
And lastly, I would like to know if anyone can think of a nice solution for the following problem: I'm detecting things like <Vote> and <Public Announcement> and use those to add a colored bar to the message; I'm also detecting things like #news to do filtering on at a later point in time. Unfortunately, if you use these tags forum in the first post of the forum, they are copied to each reply (and hapily prefixed with 'Re: '). This also happens with the [ Senate ] and other locations, but that's fine.
The problem is the fact that each reply is also detected as a <Vote> with a #news tag. While casting a vote is important, it should not make the front-page news... We do have some information, like the 'Re: ', but I'm not sure how to distinguish actual #news tags added by the user into his subject line from those just copied by the forum.
What does a wiki edit of the ic namespace mean in a news context? Is this an IC or OOC thing?
Is it nice to have the full news message, or shoulw we show only summaries (of up to 250 characters), and link to the actual item?
Would it be nice to have a display of faction icons next to posting senators? (Or a display of faction icons for any faction mentioned in the post?)
And lastly, I would like to know if anyone can think of a nice solution for the following problem: I'm detecting things like <Vote> and <Public Announcement> and use those to add a colored bar to the message; I'm also detecting things like #news to do filtering on at a later point in time. Unfortunately, if you use these tags forum in the first post of the forum, they are copied to each reply (and hapily prefixed with 'Re: '). This also happens with the [ Senate ] and other locations, but that's fine.
The problem is the fact that each reply is also detected as a <Vote> with a #news tag. While casting a vote is important, it should not make the front-page news... We do have some information, like the 'Re: ', but I'm not sure how to distinguish actual #news tags added by the user into his subject line from those just copied by the forum.
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