Too many articles linking in

Bob | 16.06.2010 17:31

There are too many articles linking in from regional indymedia to the main site

There are too many articles linking in from regional indymedia to the main site.

The indymedia mainpage is rapidly becoming unusable.

the mainpage should be an area for headline news not, "Man steps on slug" articles from bristol indy, posted in 1976.

Sad and slow decline?

sort it please

Bob

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maybe, but...

16.06.2010 17:53

You think there are too many articles on the main page then? So to solve the problem you post a complaint about it as an article. Hmmmm... well done dickhead, problem solved then.

biff

Unusable tosh

16.06.2010 18:00

Indeed, news and links to pdf's of zines are not the same thing either.

Being taken to another site without warning isn't helpful either.

So, where to get news about actions and campaigns now eh?

Arthur

syndicated content

16.06.2010 18:00

if you follow the uk imc email lists you will see that it's the importing of articles from northern england via rss that clogged up the wire today

also there are some new templates which would allow people to customize things like what is on the newswire but there doesn't seem to be agreement on deploying them

list readerz

tricky

16.06.2010 18:52

tricky thing is when some articles are repeats of things that have already been posted here, and when a few days later harder to notice. zines fine by me.

tricky

It'll sort out

16.06.2010 19:13

As soon as people realise that there isn't any point posting on both a local site and here, it would be good to link to local sites on the publish page to encourage people to post there and see it appear here.

Would be good if indymedia UK could add places not covered by a local IMC like Wales though

Reader

RIGHT ON!

16.06.2010 19:49

Dead M8, some of the links don't even work, I don't come on Indymedia to click on outside links that lead up internets back alleys and or pdfs surely publishing text is the easiest thing in the world innit ?

GRRRRR

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zines are the original radical media

16.06.2010 21:15

in the days of yore before the internet, zines were the main way radical news, ideas and thoughts circulated around the movement. I think it's great that northern imc have included them on their site and are preserving and distroing them in this way. True, some don't have an obvious news content but the very act of putting together a diy zine is a radical, anti establishment act in itself.

Looking at the recent imc UK list archives will explain why there is a sudden rush of news from Northern IMC. Basically, one of the uk site admins was refusing to add their feeds due to a personal grudge until the whole network basically insisted. I'm sure things will calm down in a day or two.

Welcome back to the UK site imc Northern. Look forward to reading more zines online!

list subscriber

suggestion

16.06.2010 23:41

i love zines. and am involved in a zine library myself.
but i agree that they're not the same as "news", and never really have been.
it's great to hear that northern imc now has an online collection of zines for download. but now that we all know that, do we really need to be told about each new upload? one article saying "a new online zine library has been launched. here's a description of what makes it different from the existing online zine resources. and here's the link to its index" would have been enough.
and yes, i too followed some of the links and found that they didn't work - how frustrating! always good to check these things before publicising them to thousands of people....
maybe worth sorting out the problem with the pdfs, making a long list of all the links (or just having an index available on northern imc?) then posting one article to tell the rest of us about it...?
oh, and deleting all the old "news items" because anyone who finds them in the archived newswire is going to have the same miserable "this pdf doesn't work" experience suffered by the rest of us?!

zine-lover

it's a one-off problem

17.06.2010 00:27

As far as I can see it's a one-off problem caused by a batch of articles from northern IMC all being imported at once, without the correct time/date so that they swamped the newswire all at once.

Presumably now that northern has been added to the system new articles will be imported on an ongoing basis and be mixed in with other news, rather than several months worth swamping the newswire at once.

So stay patient, it's a temporary problem which will sort itself out, as long as people continue to use the site to post news etc.

BTW NIce to see that syndicated articles now link to the proper sites; it was weird to have a copy of everything on the UK site.

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why are your a nazi you nasi?

17.06.2010 17:31

and why do you hate our valueS? indymedia was founded on the idea of think local act global and if you disagree with anythin gthey do you must be a nazi. so sod off you nasi trols and go hang out with your zionist mates

not a nazi

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