ZP homepage and news article changes

**Jorge** · November 4th, 2005, 08:18 PM

Some of you that visit the rest of the site will notice that i have changed some things up.

News Articles

- News stories can now be rated inside of article

- Score comment in place inside of article comments

this can help hurt your reputation

Homepage

- The highest rated news article for the week will remain on top of the other stories on the homepage

- If a article receives a higher rating, the current article will be replaced

- Rated article will not be repeated in homepage articles

**evilmegaman** · November 4th, 2005, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by Jorge

this can help hurt your reputation

That doesn't sound good. :| but the rest of it is great :)

Unless the reputation of which you are speaking is unrelated to the reputation on the forums.

**notbob** · November 4th, 2005, 09:40 PM

news comments are dead

nobody has cared about the news articles in about 2 years

**bmc152003** · November 4th, 2005, 10:52 PM

this whole site is dead, its just that the news articles went first.

**Excrement_Cranium** · November 4th, 2005, 11:40 PM

Aw... come on. The whole site isn't dead. The forums are cunvulsing just fine.

The news over the past couple years has been nothing but crap though. Whatever happened to 257 crappy new file sharing apps per week?

P2P needs an epinepherine injection.

**fleecy** · November 4th, 2005, 11:47 PM

ooh, pulp fiction flashback... oh wait, that was adrenalin.

**-0-BACKLASH-0-** · November 5th, 2005, 11:26 AM

I prefer to read the news as it's posted. Meaning, I can easily see what's new over what I've already read b/c it's at the top.

**crackerjacker** · November 5th, 2005, 12:53 PM

i havent notice any new changes lmfao

**Dark Messenger** · November 5th, 2005, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by notbob

news comments are dead

nobody has cared about the news articles in about 2 years

I don't understand the negativity. What is it you don't like about the news comments. As an old timer your words should hold more weight than that of a n00b to the forum. I seem to remember the news comments being laid out very much like forum comments at one time. I also remember some security vulnerabilities within the old layout involving an undefined name tag attribute...as I think back on it the Xolox big news announcement by Matt is a good example of the news comments in their heyday and to be more accurate the news comments resembled the layout of the original kazaa forums as they were simple and direct resembling very much the php based phorum 2.08~2.13(or2.18?) phorum software.

What was better about it that you don't like now? Or what other possibility could there be for making it exciting again?

**.:sp00ky:.** · November 5th, 2005, 01:20 PM

since they changed everything the front page just looks a mess the news is just a loss in between all the ads and other pointless crap (sony ericsson phone reveiws?) just looks like another ad to me.

I used adblock and r.i.p on the front page but if you remove all the crap their isnt much of a front page left thats why I just have the forums bookmarked now.

**PiRaNeTuS** · November 5th, 2005, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by notbob

news comments are dead

nobody has cared about the news articles in about 2 years

this whole site is dead, its just that the news articles went first.

I would, sadly, agree.

**grab_grab_the_haddock** · November 5th, 2005, 02:18 PM

The news articles are lagging well behind those at slyck.

Make me a news mod and the news will be so fucking shit hot you would need oven gloves to visit the page. Seriously, I know what the punters love and ill give you news articles like you never imagined in your wildest fantasies.

**WE_DELIVER** · November 5th, 2005, 02:30 PM

Back when the news comments were simple to view and post this site used to thrive.... I used to visit it everyday just to read and comment on the news, not just posting in the forums.

The "most popular news stories" thing can be on the side of the webpage where it used to be. There is no need for big yellow scoreboxes at the center to mark the "score" of a news story. And news should be sorted by date, not by ratings.....

**Dark Messenger** · November 5th, 2005, 03:09 PM

@grab

Originally Posted by grab_grab_the_haddock

Make me a news mod and the news will be so fucking shit hot you would need oven gloves to visit the page. Seriously, I know what the punters love and ill give you news articles like you never imagined in your wildest fantasies.

I'm willing to try that.

@we_deliver

Originally Posted by we_deliver

news should be sorted by date

I agree with this.

**notbob** · November 5th, 2005, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Messenger

I don't understand the negativity. What is it you don't like about the news comments. As an old timer your words should hold more weight than that of a n00b to the forum. I seem to remember the news comments being laid out very much like forum comments at one time. I also remember some security vulnerabilities within the old layout involving an undefined name tag attribute...as I think back on it the Xolox big news announcement by Matt is a good example of the news comments in their heyday and to be more accurate the news comments resembled the layout of the original kazaa forums as they were simple and direct resembling very much the php based phorum 2.08~2.13(or2.18?) phorum software.

What was better about it that you don't like now? Or what other possibility could there be for making it exciting again?

i just read the stuff when it comes out on slyck or theregister or wherever

the news comment system was irrelevant since the grabowski and "first post" days, but at least it was quick and fun when it was semianonymous. once you had to sign in, why bother with it? use the forums

why do you need a forum and a news section? especially if they are just the same thing anyway? the relinking to the redundant front page story is especially infuriating, because the forum posts then lack a proper source

zeropaid's news reputation died long ago, and it isn't going to come back