Hmmm. How to adequately explain this?
Put very, very simply, the Amiga community is still shrinking. I know that comes as a surprise to no one, but what that means is that there is less, and less news. Out of the five or so sites that people really remember, every single one pretty much always has the exact same news stories. We miss some, they miss some.
What this will hopefully do, is to make it where it truly doesn't matter. The time of competing should be long gone by now, and it's only the sheer ego of a very few in this community that keep the "bad mojo" going.
In short, please. Continue to post your own "local stories". With RSS, everyone else will have it sooner than later anyway, as well they should so there's really no such thing as a "local" story any more. Welcome to the 21st century folks.
Perhaps if we sat all the silly crap aside, we could actually help to keep the platform going rather than to continually try and divide the community into oblivion.
Another problem, and smaller reason behind this is that even with a staff of 10 (or 50 if you count all the sites combined), it's just impossible to cover all the stories all the time. Some developers have gotten to where they only post stories here. Some have gotten to where they only post stories elsewhere. Who does that really help? Certainly not the Amiga community...
Amiga news should be universal here folks, as long as proper credit and respect is given.
Oh yeah, the reason that the news articles today rotated so quickly is simply that it was the first time the new program had successfully run. Because of that, there were many "backfill" stories over the last few weeks which had not made their way here yet. As the program is finalized, it will run about once every four hours, and the admins can simply approve news as they normally would, at a much slower pace.
Seriously, we're kinda digging the whole concept of non-competition here, but we're not married to it. If you have ideas or feedback, please let me know. I'll be happy to consider any constructive ideas. After all, we're supposed to be SUPPORTING the Amiga, not tearing it down.
Wayne
If you run an Amiga site and don't know how to set up RSS, lemme know. It's fairly straight forward.
