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In lugnet.admin.general, Tim Courtney wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
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I actually think that the Top Stories box should be removed from the
main LUGNET homepage. It’s redundant with the News homepage.
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I would disagree. Unless there is some serious, oft-updated content added
to the front page (e.g. admin-blog or rotating images), the Top Stories box
is the only reason I keep coming back to www.lugnet.com, rather than making
news.lugnet.com my preferred bookmark. If the front page becomes static,
who aside from brand new viewers cares what it looks like, because
experience members will go directly to their respective corners of LUGNET.
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I’m up in the air about keeping ‘Top Stories’ on the main page of LUGNET.
Perhaps it should stay, and have a bit less prominent position.
What I’d *really* like to see is a magazine-style news posting system where
articles (not posts) are written for the LUGNET main page. Take a look at
BZPower, BrickFilms, or
FBTB among other sites to see what I’m talking about.
This feature wouldn’t take up the whole main page, but could have a
significant part of the middle devoted to it.
If written the right way, it could tie in news from across the community and
not just LUGNET. LUGNET could have an editorial staff that publishes a small
handful of articles each week, to keep the content on the main page fresh.
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Yes! - it would be very much like a group blog. See my mockup:
http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=11349
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Also, others could get together to create a “New to the hobby?” guide for
newbies. That could provide some copy orienting them to the various sites and
services in the community, and point them in the right direction.
Now below is a novel idea, so please don’t jump on me for it - just
brainstorming here:
I wonder if “Newsgroups” should be renamed to “Discussion Groups.” I don’t
know how the LUGNET population breaks down, but on the internet today far
more people use online discussion groups than use NNTP news. New users will
likely identify with the word “Discussion Groups” or “Forums” much quicker
than they would “Newsgroups.” Note: I am not suggesting eliminating NNTP
news, I realize that’s important to a lot of LUGNET readers. Perhaps though,
the http://news.lugnet.com could redirect to something else? Could it be
written in a way that it doesn’t break existing links?
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When I was brainstorming the WorldLUG project with Paul Hartzog, one of our
key ideas was a central links database - like an open directory project.
Allow LUGNET members to update their own URLs that are listed in the links
database, and set up a few admins to manage links to non-LUGNET-member sites.
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This is a great idea. It is a superhuman task for one person, or even a few
people to keep up with all the links out there.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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There could even be a redirect URL which would always point to the current
location of a site, by way of the central link database. For example, if I
own www.foo.com, and I want to link to www.geocities.com/~bar/glort.html, but
I know that page will probably change in the future, I can link to
www.lugnet.com/link.cgi?id=x (where x is the link ID of the page I’m linking
to). The LUGNET server would then redirect me to
www.geocities.com/~bar/glort.html - and if that ever changed the link would
point me in the right direction once the link database was updated.
That way, I wouldn’t have to manually change my links to another community
site.
-Tim
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