How would you compare/contrast this to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events ?
Edit: You appear to be scraping it, actually?
Pretty cool stuff. If I were building this, I'd add some tagging system so users could filter what they want to see. Politics, business, sports, entertainment, etc.
Right now it seems heavily weighted towards world politics with a sprinkle of Victoria's Secret
Specifically I'd make it like little tags that you can click on to filter for or click on an x to filter out, something like that (think like how you can "solo" or "mute" any given track on a DAW)
This is awesome. Reminds me of the drudgereport when it was good. Only recommendation would be a way to see the article content summary without click through if I want a bit more info but not enough to click through and face ads. Food for thought.
One more piece of feedback: I'd remove the numbers next to the headlines and pass them through your AI model to rewrite them more like what you see in the news, e.g.
> 10. Attorney General of Spain Ălvaro GarcĂa Ortiz is charged by the Supreme Court for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid Isabel DĂaz Ayuso. However, GarcĂa Ortiz announces that he will not resign. (RTVE)
becomes
> Spain AG GarcĂa Ortiz Charged with Tax Fraud Leak, Wonât Resign (RTVE)
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From the feedback here are the next steps.
1. Making the titles shorter with an ai model.
2. Tagging articles and putting the tags / topics on top bar for filtering.
3. Attributing sources like wikipedia in the footer.
4. Adding some more sources and have a minimum amount of positive stories. There are ongoing wars at the moment but it cannot be too depressing to read news either.
5. Improving contrast of the subtitles.
6. After titles are shortened have a way to see a very short summary (similar to the current title) somewhere
7. And finally add login and upvoting so we can rank stories better.
From what I understand people like the design so that will remain unchanged.
Feel free to suggest anything I missed
Can I recommend increasing the text contrast a little for the metadata under the links for accessibility?
#666 on #ddd is a contrast ratio of 4.2:1, which might be difficult for some readers. Even moving to #555 on #ddd would move you into passing WCAG AA. Moving #454545 would pass WCAG AAA contrast ratios, and you could be pretty confident that nearly all readers would find it much easier to read!
I love it. The only thing I would want different is to maybe give control for the number of stories on the page so I could only view 10 at a time if I wanted?
For me it seemed like more effort to skim than HN but I am not sure why that is.
My first impression though is this is better than anything I use currently for news. Really a testament to what complete trash "the news" has become.
What does "clean" mean in this context?
Thank you.
How do you choose which articles go where?
At least one is outdated - the launch of Europa Clipper.
For me, clustering articles by topic would make it much more efficient, so I could browse by topic. Easier said than done, of course, unless you are manually curating it.
I run a similar site, but more focused on tech/finance.
Still early alpha, https://www.stonkys.com
Feedback appreciated
Can't tell how things are looking on desktop right now, but after seeing it on mobile I wish texts had a bit bigger font.
Otherwise it's a nice job, congratulations.
I don't know if I would trust the implicit editorial lens of popularity on Wikipedia as my only window into the world.
would be great to add a couple features if this goes: - user ranking/votes for the most important items - horizon scanning for emerging hot topics or trends (unknown unknowns) - best of all... curated "clean news" that is AI & human recommendations for the topics I care about at a price
Reminds me of boringreport.org . I would seriously consider also allowing filtering by type of news.
Can this have a RSS feed or do I need to scrape it?
Thanks for that.
mostly negative, tragic news - either war or mass casuals.
Thank you for the site. After reading a few headlines I started to have the impression the world is waiting for Putin to die, we could have at least a chance for at least one war to stop (there is no chance he will stop it while being alive).
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i like it. how do you want to monetize?
>1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says North Korea has become directly involved in the war, with a senior Ukrainian intelligence official saying around 3,000 North Korean troops are now in Russia, and are training for deployment to Russian-occupied territories. (Politico)
This is not news this is propaganda, fix your filters if you want people to use your service.
very biased and unrealiable sources though...
Perhaps one piece of news seems to be positive and most seem about death and war. I respect the site and effort but I would worry about putting myself in such a headspace. There is positive stuff in this world too just don't lose sight of it!