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- On 23 Jul 2012
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What's with the newslinks lately?,
jamboree said:
Sad to say the experiment to let users vote on the news links is adding alot of noise, and also the topics are no longer focused on housing-related news. For example, I don't need any Obama or Romney news / political cartoons on this site, unless it is housing/economy related. There's plenty of other politics focused sites I can goto to read that drivel.
The news was much better when it was a curated list. If Patrick doesn't have time, maybe he should ask for volunteers who would agree to stick to housing related news and let them curate the news by committee.
Maybe Patrick is trying to turn patrick.net into a reddit.com or something. Right now, I'm finding if I want housing related news, I'm better off going to http://www.reddit.com/r/housing than http://patrick.net, which didn't used to be the case. - On 23 May 2012
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Letting Users Pick Newslinks,
jamboree said:
Unrelated, but another layout issue that annoying me is the "Latest Forum Activity".
You could save vertical space if you move the title lines to the right of the picture, e.g. from reddit
Thanks - On 23 May 2012
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Letting Users Pick Newslinks,
jamboree said:
There are lots of ways to layout the HTML. If you look at the ycombinator.com/news, they are using a table (border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0) where each line is a row plus an empty spacer row style="height:5px". For this patrick.net table, row1 would be the title row, row2 would be the "submitted by" row, and row3 would be a vertical spacer row. This allow you to group the title and submitted by lines tightly together. Reddit.com is another good example too look at how they groups the related lines together with a vertical space inbetween each group.
I agree it's nice to see the up and down but it could still be done more subtle, e.g. "10 points (12/2)". Or, like reddit or slickdeals, etc. do is only show the net score on the front page, but if you goto the comments for the article, then you can see the up/down counts.
The ycombinator.com/news arrow is at the other extreme -- too small imo.
The red/green arrows are very garish. Most other sites use more neutral colors which match their website, e.g. facebook, reddit, slickdeals, etc.
boldface removed: 
Thanks,
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