Posted Oct 23, 2009 by Shagbark
Douglas Adams said in A550955
<i>What we are now in the process of doing is taking the experience of the last two years and radically redesigning the underlying architecture of the Guide so that it becomes much easier to find information, much, much easier to enter information, and much, much, much easier to connect one piece of information with another.<i>
Somewhere his vision has gotten off track if as GB says there are more people out doing things and less pounding keys to create articles.
Adams idea of someone texting "this coffee at Beanshack 42 is terrible and someone else saying but they have great cheesecake today" sounds more like twitter than hootoo.
We have reached a point where I suggested putting a navigation bar on the top of the sedna article and Gnomon said
"I will use the one from your Eris article but have to wait until it hits the FP"
With the current rule about only having three articles a week on the Front Page that could be a long long wait. Not at all like our founders vision.
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Posted Oct 24, 2009 by Mina - Older on the outside, inside still 14
"With the current rule about only having three articles a week on the Front Page that could be a long long wait. Not at all like our founders vision."
There was a long wait for the FP when I started writing for the Guide. Douglas would have been alive then, and that was before the Beeb.
Perhaps we should just accept he might have liked Twitter better?
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Posted Oct 24, 2009 by Shagbark
I also was here before the BBC took over and as I remember it
noone (except perhaps DNA) was trying to fit articles together in those days, they just wanted articles to be fact not fiction.
Hootoo has come a long ways since then, and many articles written in 2000 would not reach the FP today because they lack the depth demanded by todays scouts.
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Posted Oct 25, 2009 by Shagbark
I guess I will get off my soapbox here. <unsubscribes>
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