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Hi jow.
I saw you updated the homepage with the "Wireless Battle of the Mesh v9".
It's very interesting, indeed.
Someone (You?) also did some refreshing to headlines, I see. It used to be 5 years outdated until last week!
Now it's only 3 years outdated by mentioning 12.09 final.
But you seem to be the one and only person (with a username) capable of modifying this wonderful project's homepage.
But it's impossible to contact you! Not even a message from the profile page!
There's been a number of tickets and forum posts about the status of the homepage since years now.
There's people willing to volunteer for keeping that page up to date.
There's been even someone who created a demo new homepage for reviewing.
But it's all in vain if none among those who can touch the homepage interacts with all this people.
Please, step in, open a discussion thread and let's see whether and how we all can contribute.
It's a real shame, otherwise, we keep a homepage: jut redirect it to the wiki!

Sorry for bothering you, anyway.

I cannot modify the homepage, it automatically draws its content from the News forum.

jow wrote:

I cannot modify the homepage, it automatically draws its content from the News forum.

So who refreshed the headlines?
Do you know who can modify the home page?

uqbar wrote:
jow wrote:

I cannot modify the homepage, it automatically draws its content from the News forum.

So who refreshed the headlines?
Do you know who can modify the home page?

The headlines were not refreshed - he posted a topic in the News forum.

The headlines on the right side titled ... "Headlines".
They have been refreshed between yesterday and today. And still lagging behind...

uqbar wrote:

The headlines on the right side titled ... "Headlines".
They have been refreshed between yesterday and today. And still lagging behind...

As far as I have been able to determine, the "headlines" are the "next older news" than the newest news items in the center of the page.

When Jow's new item got shown as the first item in the middle of the front page, the oldest item from the center section got pushed down to "headlines" on the right.

(first messages from the newest 7 news threads are in the center, while the 8 next threads get shown in the "headlines". And the date sort is based on the thread's first message's date)

The title should probably not be "headlines" but instead "older headlines".

(Last edited by hnyman on 10 Mar 2016, 17:19)

hnyman wrote:

As far as I have been able to determine, the "headlines" are the "next older news" than the newest news items in the center of the page.

When Jow's new item got shown as the first item in the middle of the front page, the oldest item from the center section got pushed down to "headlines" on the right.

...

Ahah! I just realized the importance of what you just said, and how it affects the home page.

If I understand correctly, there's some process that automatically updates the OpenWrt home page (http://openwrt.org) whenever a new Forum -> News topic is posted.  (https://forum.openwrt.org/viewforum.php?id=11)

The good news is that the home page is automatically updated. The bad news is that it has bad formatting, and provides a fairly poor selection of information that's relevant to the OpenWrt community.

richbhanover wrote:
hnyman wrote:

As far as I have been able to determine, the "headlines" are the "next older news" than the newest news items in the center of the page.

When Jow's new item got shown as the first item in the middle of the front page, the oldest item from the center section got pushed down to "headlines" on the right.

...

Ahah! I just realized the importance of what you just said, and how it affects the home page.

If I understand correctly, there's some process that automatically updates the OpenWrt home page (http://openwrt.org) whenever a new Forum -> News topic is posted.  (https://forum.openwrt.org/viewforum.php?id=11)

The good news is that the home page is automatically updated. The bad news is that it has bad formatting, and provides a fairly poor selection of information that's relevant to the OpenWrt community.

Well, the situation has been the same for long.
I opened a ticket about the issue 4 years ago (when Backfire 10.03.1 was the brand-new release)...
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/10655

(Last edited by hnyman on 11 Mar 2016, 15:07)

richbhanover wrote:

The bad news is that it has bad formatting, and provides a fairly poor selection of information that's relevant to the OpenWrt community.

The bad news is that none knows who can fix the homepage.
The fact that there is an underlying broken automatism doesn't make the situation any better.
Only sadder.

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