Ok, so we can promote scoops to the top of the front page based on radioactivity due to the killer patch the cedric put together http://drupal.org/node/214354

Now, can we get a way to list the nodes on the front page more intelligently?

Can we get a patch to use node radioactivity to list the nodes? That's how reddit and sites like it do it. That'd be pretty killer for Drigg to add.

Cedric, any chance you can sort out the patch?

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mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

Nodes are published to the front page in order of publication date.
I don't think any other way would actually work.

Which kind of ordering are you suggesting __precisely___?

Merc.

P.S.
The Radioactivity patch isn't rolled out yet because Drigg is in feature freeze for the port to D6!

bflora’s picture

bflora commented

I understand how they're listed currently.

I think Drigg would be well served by offering a few alternative listing methods. The current method is very simplistic.

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The ordering I'd like to see: Scoops sorted by Radioactivity in descending order

Most radioactive Scoop at the top, then the next, then the next and so on.

This way, when Drigg site running Radioactivity has a scoop that meets the criteria.....it appears at the bottom of the home page, and works it's way up if it gets enough energy from users.

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I've been spending a lot of time lately at news.ycombinator.com and that's the method they use....and it's really a great way to promote community and interaction. The story at the top of the page is the most active, interesting, important one and then the ones below get less important and interesting.

I think Drigg would be well-served by offering this alternate listing method.

My guess is that it would require writing of a second query function and then adding a checkbox in the admin interface to choose between default view and "radioactive view" just like cedric's radioactive patch created a few new promotion methods and checkboxes in the admin panel.

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Hi,

Sorry, offering different ordering criteria opens up a whole can of worms I don't want to deal with.
It basically goes against the basic principle of Drigg, where stories "struggle" to finally get promoted, once they reach a critical threshold. This method is there, as simple as it is, for a reason.

If you change that page, you also need to change pretty much the whole of drigg_ui.module. For example, what what would show in "most popular"? And what about "latest"?

It sounds like a total rewrite of drigg_ui.module, with a different menu system etc. And a rewrite of the promote system in drigg.

Sorry, I don't think it's a worth the work.

Merc.