I miss news on the front page

I agree.

+1 the only reason Im having a really hard time getting used to the new layout is because i miss having all the good news right there!

I agree 100%. It's great having all the trending content, but NS has become too fluid.  I always liked seeing the top headline news and I really felt like there was a good amount of quality updates coming in on a daily basis.  I understand that content is still there, but it deserves to be in a more prominent place.

agree

Maybe it could be like sticky threads. A couple news stories that just stay at the top.

I agree 100%.

this is a good idea

I like that idea

yeah to be honest I really don't like this format at all... I miss having the news and video of the month/week/day right next to it.

You've got two issues here:

1) I miss having featured articles written well and professionally by the guys at NS or people in the industry that you guys trusted to write good articles, like Pippin Lee etc..."

2) Only thing I have noticed is that news rarely pops up there anymore.



See.... the reason we did this is that there is a cause/effect situation going on here. Our news had lost an immense amount of readership over the last 2-3 years. The numbers were staggering... news was just simply collapsing in terms of anyone truly giving a shit.

So really in response to point #2 - I think the main problem is now we're actually seeing what percentage of articles anyone gives a flying rats dick about pop up. Most of the time, the video, photo or conversation content is actually what is the good stuff on the site. We've seen a few articles fly right to the top, and those have definitely been what people cared about.

As for point #1 - well the idea here is not to stop that, its actually to really, really, really drastically increase that. For starters, now there is news from every skiing website on the internet mixed in. So we've given the ability to actually find MORE 'people in the industry' writing good stuff.

Next, we have no plans to decrease the amount of amazing news written for the site, in fact we are aiming to drastically increase it. The only difference now is that an editor doesn't choose who writes it, nor does an editor choose what shows at the top.

What I suggest is that if you really care about the news and miss quality journalism - join the Journalist Network cult. We're seeking to build the next wave of pro ski journalists, and we will need curators and editors just as much as we need writers. Join up, and together we can form a new future of ski news on the internet.

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/cult/forum/cat_id/2408/

I also highly recommend writing news and sharing it from other sites as quick actions to help. :)

So bishop we can take articles from other sites and post them here?

Yeah absolutely. If you go into your 'my news' section, and click 'add link' you can even just paste in a URL and the system should do most of the rest.

We need a better adding system so its more obvious. The idea is that everyone should add all the good news from around the internet of skiing to the site. That way, you can comment (using the slide down comments) and find all the best stuff right here on NS.

Will there be any issues with copyright etc... that come from posting new articles from other sites?

You aren't re-posting them. you're actually putting a link directly to their website on newschoolers. So it helps for their SEO, it loads their ads and they register the traffic. It works just like how Stumbleupon does, or Reddit if you have the toolbar at the top turned on.

This is actually bringing you to other people's sites.

We're that awesome here. We want you guys to get a chance to share and see the best stuff out there... even if we didn't create it.

i see...it makes a lot more sense to me now and i do like it. Although if there was still like a row at the top with the really good articles i think that would be fucking awesome-er. because right now im seeing a lot of cool shit but i dont get a sense of whats big and "happening" as i used to.

I've been seeing this more often and I think it's quite cool that NS ties to other sites like that.

Lulz... Its taking influence as the 'homepage of the internet'

We're trying to be the news homepage of skiing's internet.

Something like that anyway. I know it needs work, but as you start to understand the bits it gets freaking nuts.