October 11th 2006

All Hands On Deck

Posted by C.K. Sample, III

› tags: homepage, list, netscape features, on deck, OnDeck

Yesterday, we silently launched a new feature of the site: the On Deck page (see where we hid the link to it in Figure 1). This page (and all the numbered pages after the On Deck page) updates every 5 minutes with the highest ranked stories that haven't yet made it to the homepage, so you can see what stories are about to make it, try to spot where stories you've submitted are in the rankings, and vote up stories you'd like to see make the homepage.

Figure 1: The link to the On Deck page is located immediately beneath the date and time at the beginning of Today's Hot Stories list on the homepage.

We'll be tweaking the On Deck list over the next several days to try to make it more accurately display what's almost on the homepage.

Let us know what you think.

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4:34PMjames cunningham

your whole page has turned into such a BLOGSCAPE that I cant tell whats real news or some made up contrib.gettin my news from Google now. I think the blog format is a mess to serious readers

6:38PMhvw

I agree with James Cunningham.

9:56AMJay Garcia

This entire concept is new to Netscape and is going to take time to iron everything out. Never before in the history of Netscape has the user been able to take such an active part in its future. Kudos to the team.

3:14PMDana

It might just be confusion on my part, or that I am not a regular Netscape user, but before the homepage changed, there was actually news and social content relevant to the events of the day, right there, in a concise, easy to read format. What about the stories that others of us might find interesting, but seeing as how no one is "voting" for them, serious readers might not see? Since when did Netscape become one big ballot box, and haven't we all had enough of that? The one good thing I can see about the new page layout is the link taking you directly to the story instead of having to go through an intermediate page just to get to something. Nothing is perfect, and we cannot please everyone, which is why there is such a plethera of sites, something for every taste. Thanks guys.

1:40PMsearch engine marketing

"The one good thing I can see about the new page layout is the link taking you directly to the story instead of having to go through an intermediate page just to get to something."

1:43PMwikupon

well i wanted first to said i had the same meaning with Dana.