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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Change in policy on News?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:28:25 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

> >>> I'd love this, but it would require a site design change.  If you 
> >>> remember, we'd talked about dividing the news tickers into
> >> 4 parts:  News, Product
> >>> Announcements, Events and Training.   However, that didn't
> >> work with the
> >>> design for the home page.
> >>
> >> How much work would it be to fix up the right column on 
> the main page?
> >>
> >> Initial thoughts:
> >>
> >>    Get rid of the individual dates ... change it to something like:
> >
> > I think that's a really bad idea, for two reasons:
> > 1) It's good to know the exact date, when you're a frequent browser
> 
> If you are a frequent browser, you would know what's changed 
> sicne the last time you visited ... and if you are interested 
> in a headline, you would click on it to read the whole thing, 
> and get teh exact date at the same time ...

Well, I know *I* get annoyed when I hit sites that listn ews without
dates on them ;-)



> > 2) We more or less *have* to keep up the throughput. And the list 
> > isn't "dynamic" enough - once the first entry goes in for 
> february, it 
> > gets to live alone..
> 
> I was more thinking '6 most recent headlines', and if they 
> overlap months, so be it, you have:
> 
> News
>    Jan 2006
>      ...
>      ...
>    Dec 2006
>      ...
>      ...
>      ...
>      ...
> 
> Or do you mean we *want* to get rid of Dec News when the 
> first one for Jan comes along?

Absolutely not. I thought you meant "show two months" or so. If we still
show <n> headlines, I can live with it. Though I still prefer the full
dates.

//Magnus

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