JEMC said:
vivster said:
I wonder that every day. It's a nice effort but I always find myself just scrolling past your wall of text and then skip to the easily digestible snippets the others are posting. It's just way too much effort trying to parse a giant post that may or may not have 1 or 2 mildly interesting posts in it.
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Leaving your usual sarcasm aside, and that the news aren't only for you and thus the news should be of use for everyone, what would you do to improve the design of the news? Put only the headline and link? Because givem hpw the news after the PC Gaming show went, it would be boring as fuck.
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Leaving out the description actually would improve it. If I haven' t been hooked by the headline the rest of the text is just random noise and if I'm really interested I'm gonna go to the article straight away anyway. That said, pictures would help greatly to break up the monotony of just text and would be an easy way to catch the eye of anyone scrolling through. That is exactly what news blogs do to actually make people interested and help them to parse the ridiculous number of news.
But that basically brings me to the main issue. News blogs already exist and do a better job at what they're doing. I would figure that anyone who really wants to be confronted with 30 news stories a day would already go to said websites. As it is now it's just copy and paste of content that I could get elsewhere where it is way better presented due to having a dedicated website for it.
This is a forum, though. What would actually make me interested in the things you post is if you just handpicked a few articles and gave us your opinion on it because you're actually interested in those topics. That's how discussions start. When I see anyone else posting news articles there is an instant dialogue there because I already know that the person who posts it is very much interested in it and can be talked to about it and maybe even give some more insight on it. Or to say it with your own words: having someone just pasting random news articles without giving any insight or opinion is "boring as fuck" to begin with.
I really do not want to shit on what you're doing, I've seen you struggle with keeping up and complaining that it's a lot to do and it really is. That's why I'm trying to get you to do less of it and have instead more time time to do other fun stuff, like discussing news or making a sandwich. If you want to continue with it more power to you, just thought I'd give you my two cents and speak out loud what others may be thinking as well.