What happend to the news?

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Steve 3.2 said:

The ranking system that currently controls what stories go on the main page sucks. (Sorry for the 'harsh' language, but it definitely is not working as intended.) I complained about this a few days ago and never got a response. (shrugs) I just won't be posting any new news until it's fixed.

What's wrong?

With the current ranking system, stories will only show up on the main page after getting a certain number of votes. I don't think most visitors know that they need to click the 'See the latest news stories submitted' link to see them. As such, for the casual visitor it looks like this site has no new news.

 Yup, I agree. One solution would be to have a "most popular news" & "most recent news" list of headlines on the main page. This is a general problem that seems to apply to everything - anything shown on the main page gets so much more attention/hits than something off it... and if things shown are popularity based, then the same things will also stay there.

(another alternative is to show the most recently viewed/edited news on the main page - just like the forum threads).