How to post to "community news" on front page?

[Licho]

So far it didnt mention any of major Zero-K release or feature, seems to inform mainly about evo rts or broken harddisk I want to fix that asap.

Note I cant even register as an user there, it always claims that captcha fails.

[smoth]

That indie db thang that you never use...

[Licho]

Indie db? What you mean? Is it connected somehow? I dont get it

[smoth]

Click the links. Read that it is fed via springinfo, realize spring info is grabbing the feeds.

[Licho]

Oh but it seems to ignore our moddb/indiedb entries..
But we can ask someone to add custom RSS feed right?
Who is responsible for the site?
Is it FA?

[smoth]

That is strange.
yes
forboding
yes

[knorke]

problem is posted news on ie springinfo.info have to be approved by hand which can take some days.

and there is "Want an item in the community news forum? Submit your request here" which probally takes like a year to get posted on frontpage (guessing from screenshot/banner forum)

[MidKnight]

Why not recruit more approve-ers, then?

[Neddie]

I think I can check daily if somebody gives me the rights.

[MidKnight]

We could also have it send an email upon receiving a new item, so that Neddie (or any other approve-inator) doesn't have to go through all the trouble of checking every day.

[knorke]

imo make it not require approving. i think there are some people who would write stuff but atm it is too complicated/takes too long to appear on front page.
sure, sometimes people might post boring stuff or OT but then moderators can just delete it.
And I'd rather like to read small, not really "news worthy" stuff like cool replay uploaded instead of the same posts from 2010...

[Forboding Angel]

@everyone: *Frowny Face*

Licho, give me a news rss feed that links back to the source article and it's a done deal. Your site looks like it was done without a cms and as a result doesn't have an rss feed (which is why it was never added to the list).

It's worth noting that if you spam the feed (with bs newsposts and stuff about how your dog died, or you got the clap, or how badly it hurts when you pee, or how you took a massive dump into your svn and now you feel emaciated, etc), I will remove you from it (and that goes for anyone). To date that hasn't been an issue yet though.

Edit: Read the rest of the thread, now you get another *Frowny Face* for lack of attention span.

First off, if your news is an rss feed it doesn't have to be approved. Only direct posts on SI have to be approved (though personally I vastly prefer a feed, because then you get traffic to your site too).

Knorke, the only reason your last took forever is because I had gotten rid of the plugin that sends me an email when someone makes a post on it (more plugins = more server memory usage), because there are direct posts on SI... What, once every 3 months?

@licho, I specifically asked you guys for an rss feed to use, but I was told not to use moddb iirc (which makes sense because you would want it to be news from your actual website, not from moddb).

There is a thread lurking around in the depths of general discussion where I was asking for feeds. You guys weren't left out for any other reason than the fact that I simply didn't have anything to syndicate. Also, when I set this up, zk was still a stain on the mattress (in other words, zk wasn't around, it was CA then).

back@everyone: it's worth noting that I do not like the idea of syndicating stuff for *A, as, overall it is a detriment to the rest of us. I don't think I have ever refused to syndicate *A though.

[FLOZi]

Unrelated post:

Me and knorke should be given wiki admin.

[Licho]

Thank you, I will post feed here after i prepare one decently moderated.

So if dog dies its not newsworthy but if disk dies it is? I like my dog more tbh..

[smoth]

So if dog dies its not newsworthy but if disk dies it is? I like my dog more tbh..

Read the actual news. It is an update showing that work has been done and detailing what progress has been made. Don't be a douche about it.

[Forboding Angel]

So if dog dies its not newsworthy but if disk dies it is? I like my dog more tbh..

Read the actual news. It is an update showing that work has been done and detailing what progress has been made. Don't be a douche about it.

^^ This

He made news about something that had happened to his comp but in the same sentence talked about how it affected gundam development.

The point is, if you're AF's blog, the syndication is going to stop quickly. I expect you to have a decent rss feed for your news. Maybe I'm spoiled by Wordpress who has an rss feed for every single category of EVERYTHING, but them's the breaks. Moddb pages are generally a-ok from the getgo because you wouldn't have some idiot on there bitching about his personal life and what good kinds of pot he got the other day, etc.

However, what I was mainly talking about, is spam posting so much that it knocks everyone off the list but you. If that were the case tho, I'd just slow down the rate of syndication for that feed on SI.

None of this has been a problem in the past, and I doubt it will be in the future, just saying, don't try to game the system, cause it will bend you over the table.

[Forboding Angel]

Btw, to clarify, some off topic posts on the feed once in a while aren't any big deal. The concern is people that may try to spam the feed so that their stuff is the only thing shown on it. That's not nice nor is it cool in the least. I highly doubt anyone would do that, but I'm just saying it out loud so that it's at least been said.