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I'm curious why you chose the categories that you did. Why focus on business/tech instead of having a broader focus on more mainstream current event news?
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I think I'd echo what jcr said: it needs an additional human layer, to nail down the original source of articles. Else it's just another random aggregator site with a random set of sources, however pretty.
The algorithm is still a work in progress. We are constantly tweaking it to make it more autonomous and better at selecting stories. Thanks!
I would consider following the site if categories had RSS feeds.
1.) You never set background-color. Not setting background-color results in unintended consequences on any browser configured to have a default other than the expected white background. A good example in your case is visited links become grey on grey (assuming a browser with grey default background). 2. You need to be cautious of and properly handle notorious webspam/blogspam regurgitation sites like "recode.net": "W…
1. Got it. We'll set a background color in the body. 2. I agree. We will think about ways to handle it. As a last resort we may blacklist those kind of publishers. 3. Sign in is only needed to favorite stories (using the little bookmark icon below each line). I agree that it is not clear what the sign in is for, we will fix that. 4. Yup, we will increase the contrast a little. Thanks for the feedaback!
With site-based weighting, you can still block with a threshold, but you gain the benefit of adjusting rankings based on past/known site quality, and the advantage of setting with a "default weight" for unknown sites you've never seen before.
It's really just a different approach that you might want to consider to handle the webspam/blogspam problem.
Where and how do you get your news? How do you order them? And why only 30 in each category? Other than that, nice design. Bookmarked, will see. Btw, I guess comments would be nice.
We get the news via data feeds like RSS and social networks. The ranking algorithm is similar to the HN one (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574), but instead of upvotes it uses our popularity score system.
> And why only 30 in each category?
In the future we may add mechanisms to let users browse more links, like a 'Show more' button below the links list, or an Archive section.
> Other than that, nice design. Bookmarked, will see. Btw, I guess comments would be nice.
Thanks!