I get most of my thread entry points from the "Active Topics" column to the right which lists all new threads as they come in.
It seems to have a capacity of eight threads. Regardless of content or quality, the most recent eight. That doesn't seem to be sufficient. Noticed just now "there's an interesting title, I'll go there next". It was on top, meaning the most recently created. Yet in the time it took to post a single post it was pushed off the list by all the subsequent new threads. Gone. There are that many threads coming in.
Sometimes you can find a cached page by browsering back a page. That gave me a different list but still not there. Didn't go back far enough. Topics are being launched faster than a reader can react to them. And this is even without Longknife's Daily Dump where he takes over the list.
I propose either the Active Topics list be lengthened so as to give topics a longer dwell time and thus a chance to grab some readers, OR initiate a system where a new topic can be voted as worthwhile or not, since there are a sizeable number of topics that are just crap or get deleted (but remain on the list). Or even both.
Wouldn't we rather have ten good topics with 20 readers each than 100 topics with one each because there wasn't time to catch them?
TIA
It seems to have a capacity of eight threads. Regardless of content or quality, the most recent eight. That doesn't seem to be sufficient. Noticed just now "there's an interesting title, I'll go there next". It was on top, meaning the most recently created. Yet in the time it took to post a single post it was pushed off the list by all the subsequent new threads. Gone. There are that many threads coming in.
Sometimes you can find a cached page by browsering back a page. That gave me a different list but still not there. Didn't go back far enough. Topics are being launched faster than a reader can react to them. And this is even without Longknife's Daily Dump where he takes over the list.
I propose either the Active Topics list be lengthened so as to give topics a longer dwell time and thus a chance to grab some readers, OR initiate a system where a new topic can be voted as worthwhile or not, since there are a sizeable number of topics that are just crap or get deleted (but remain on the list). Or even both.
Wouldn't we rather have ten good topics with 20 readers each than 100 topics with one each because there wasn't time to catch them?
TIA