TribalWar Blog
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
By now you are all well aware of the major change to the front page. We've adopted a Digg style community submission and voting system. We have our own publishing algorithm that determines when a news item is ready to go on the front page. Our method differs a little from Digg's. One that you may notice is that once news makes it to the front page it has a chance to stay there. That is to say a popular news item may actually leapfrog an item that was published later. This ensures really popular news gets maximum exposure.
The algorithm will continue to be tweaked over the coming weeks and months.
The other difference from Digg you will notice is not only do news items go into categories, but like everyone else going into the Web 2.0 world, we also have tags on news items. Most should be familiar with this and its benefits which I don't believe I need to go into now.
Currently we are working on bringing the forums and front page closer together. You'll start to see that stuff over the coming weeks. One feature is the comments will be displayed with the news item on the static news page (posting will happen here too). This will lead to a change in the new forum.
We're also playing with the idea of automatically creating a thread link in General Discussion automatically if the popularity on a news item reaches a certain threshold. Still early in discussion on that one.
Stay tuned for updates.
Posted by Yogi at 1:16 PM
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