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A comment on Ask HN: What would you like to see in a social news site?.

Re:Ask HN: What would you like to see in a social news site? by ScottWhigham on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @05:40PM (#2993661)
If I have to scroll to see more than 20 headlines, I won't use it. So I'd say compact the space so that I see the headlines that I want to see in those first 20.

Example of a social news site that I don't like: http://www.newsvine.com/

There are three problems for me:

1) It doesn't fit 100% of my screen

2) This results in too few headlines so I have to scroll, scroll, scroll

3) There are no categories so I can't self-select

I like the MSNBC page about midway down where it lists the category, lets me select how many stories I want in a category, and crams a lot of headlines into a small area.

My $0.02 since you asked!

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Re:Ask HN: What would you like to see in a social news site? by leejw00t354 on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @05:58PM (#2993726)
The UI is something we are focusing on a lot. With social news there is a big problem to overcome with how to deal with the massive number of articles being submitted. Mainly finding the best way to display all of them articles in a way that the user can find what they want to read about as easy as possible. Our main focus with Athesyn is 'news you care about'.
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