NWR Interactive => NWR Feedback => Topic started by: thepoga on February 05, 2004, 01:42:24 PM
Title: News Pages
Post by: thepoga on February 05, 2004, 01:42:24 PM
when do u expect to start using the REAL news pages instead of the forums? i was just wondering since its been a long time. is it because of a new pgc format?
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: Bloodworth on February 05, 2004, 04:22:43 PM
We're almost finishing up fixing things I think. Hopefully we'll be back to normal in a couple weeks at the most. 2003: The year of unmentionable technical problems. :-/
Title: RE:News Pages
Post by: odifiend on February 06, 2004, 02:45:41 PM
That problem turned me on to the forums though so it wasn't completely horrible.
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: SearanoX on February 06, 2004, 02:57:17 PM
I think it's fine to use the forums to post news. It allows people to post their comments more quickly and efficiently, and saves you the work of having to put the articles in two places at once. It's actually one of the reasons that I signed up here, actually.
Well, go with whatever works, I guess.
Title: RE:News Pages
Post by: Bloodworth on February 06, 2004, 03:24:02 PM
Quote Originally posted by: SearanoX saves you the work of having to put the articles in two places at once.
Actually, once we moved to these forums, the site code allowed us to do that automatically. So when things are running normally, we just post to the site, and the code handles putting things in the forums.
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: Pale on February 06, 2004, 04:13:13 PM
Would it be possible to put all of our responses on the main page of the site? I know it would kind of risk spam attacks, but it would give pgc a cool fan side feel to it.
Title: RE:News Pages
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on February 07, 2004, 10:12:25 PM
Back when we designed our current layout, we made the executive decision to seperate user comments from the news stories. Although we here at Late Night...er...PGC want our site to have a strong user community, we felt a fully-integrated talkback on our site would be too much of a distraction. I know I don't like seeing "MAN thaz sukz I hat u s0ny xbox rulz" at the bottom of an otherwise professional story. If memory serves me correctly, GameSpot used to have such a feature, but they tore it down--probably for the same reason.
That being said, I haven't found the reader responses on the same page to be very distracting. I guess we just have better forum members! Perhaps I'll push for a reevaluation of such a "Recently Heard" feature in the future...
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: DrZoidberg on February 08, 2004, 12:53:32 AM
yeah, have a look at Cube-Europe's lay out, it's got the story followed by reader responses, don't go that way ;__;
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on February 08, 2004, 01:45:07 AM
I agree w/ DrZ. Cube-Europe has some of the most lame posters on the net....
first post!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: Pale on February 08, 2004, 02:16:49 AM
I know its gonna be bad, but if you make it require registration and have some hard core moderation with ip bannings, it *could* work.
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: DrZoidberg on February 08, 2004, 08:14:21 AM
it could, but then the effort goes up due to the need for constant moderation, it's just easier how it is now (well not NOW, but the way they used todo it sans technical difficulties)
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: ThePerm on February 08, 2004, 02:45:34 PM
talkback started out attached to the news and not in the forums...though i guess the old replies are wiped out for the old articles...in any case i have a few talk back responses from old forum goers....though i printed them.....so id have to find them and type them all otu manually..it'll be worth it though when i do...
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: vudu on March 04, 2004, 06:47:31 AM
is there any way to make it so the pgc staff's news comments post in the forums?
typically, i just the news articles through the forums , rather than select them from the main page. however, i'm interested to see if the staff has anything particularly interesting to say.
Title: RE: News Pages
Post by: StrikerObi on March 04, 2004, 11:33:17 AM
I'm not sure but I think if the person who writes the story includes comments when the orginially post it then their comments are included in the forum post. As for the rest of the staff comments, I have no clue.
Title: RE:News Pages
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 05, 2004, 08:19:13 AM
Obi is right. However, it may be possible to convert the later staff comments into talkback replies. I'll look into it.
