From today we will be able to sync any Back Page News item directly into our NewsCP. It grabs the data you posted and then uses the forum posts for comments.
Submitting news has never been so easy! If we think a BPN article deserves front page exposure it makes it that much easier for our news staff to "promote it" to the front page, it will look like you yourself submitted it to the front page because it retains the OP name and also counts the amount of replies the topic gets in the forum in the old comment count spot.
This way our own commenting system is bypassed for promoted stories.
I'd like to thank Brad Butner for his hard work on realizing this feature, yet another great addition to Neowin.net and one that enables the community to really interact and be fully credited for the effort.
An example of a promoted story:
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(note where the link points to in the status bar)
Full Version: Front page news changes from today
Great idea, this should stop some of the duplication and encourage more constructive Front Page comments.
About time lol 
nice to see this feature
nice to see this feature
nice feature
Quote - (Neobond @ Feb 15 2008, 09:55) 
From today we will be able to sync any Back Page News item directly into our NewsCP. It grabs the data you posted and then uses the forum posts for comments.
Submitting news has never been so easy! If we think a BPN article deserves front page exposure it makes it that much easier for our news staff to "promote it" to the front page, it will look like you yourself submitted it to the front page because it retains the OP name and also counts the amount of replies the topic gets in the forum in the old comment count spot.
This way our own commenting system is bypassed for promoted stories.
I'd like to thank Brad Butner for his hard work on realizing this feature, yet another great addition to Neowin.net and one that enables the community to really interact and be fully credited for the effort.
An example of a promoted story:
< / snip>
(note where the link points to in the status bar)
Submitting news has never been so easy! If we think a BPN article deserves front page exposure it makes it that much easier for our news staff to "promote it" to the front page, it will look like you yourself submitted it to the front page because it retains the OP name and also counts the amount of replies the topic gets in the forum in the old comment count spot.
This way our own commenting system is bypassed for promoted stories.
I'd like to thank Brad Butner for his hard work on realizing this feature, yet another great addition to Neowin.net and one that enables the community to really interact and be fully credited for the effort.
An example of a promoted story:
< / snip>
(note where the link points to in the status bar)
Good job, most of been hard to create; so nice work Developers.
Indeed, good job .
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Nice, but I think that all of the front page news should be forum discussions.
I think its a good system, so long as the right people are credited.
Quote - (StevoFC @ Feb 15 2008, 12:43)
Nice, but I think that all of the front page news should be forum discussions.
ala PHP Nuke?
I think thats great work! +1
Great Idea and Good work
That is a nice feature, some great work there guys! 
Nice idea. I'm not so sure if I like the "Submitted by xyz via source" in the title though. I preferred the actual links in the article. But then again that's just me...
Quote - (williamhook @ Feb 15 2008, 15:22)
Nice idea. I'm not so sure if I like the "Submitted by xyz via source" in the title though. I preferred the actual links in the article. But then again that's just me...
a good article should have a link too with any luck...
Neobond uses Vista 
I don't know why no one thought of this sooner. Excellent idea
I don't know why no one thought of this sooner. Excellent idea
I was wondering why this wasn't done a while ago, but I think it's great that we now have it. I noticed the "contributed by" on the latests posts and I knew something was different, just couldn't put my finger on it. Great work Brad! 
This is a good idea
Glad to see it's finally implemented
Yet another great new feature! Good job Neowin.
Very nice.
It seems that we're still getting duplication of stories between the Front and Back pages with separate comments and posts.
Toshiba Officially Confirms Death of HD-DVD: Front page, Back page
Toshiba's HD-DVD future uncertain: Front page, Back page
Hopefully this is only temporary while the last bugs are being fixed?
Toshiba Officially Confirms Death of HD-DVD: Front page, Back page
Toshiba's HD-DVD future uncertain: Front page, Back page
Hopefully this is only temporary while the last bugs are being fixed?
Quote - (Lt-DavidW @ Feb 19 2008, 11:33)
It seems that we're still getting duplication of stories between the Front and Back pages with separate comments and posts.
Toshiba Officially Confirms Death of HD-DVD: Front page, Back page
Toshiba's HD-DVD future uncertain: Front page, Back page
Hopefully this is only temporary while the last bugs are being fixed?
Toshiba Officially Confirms Death of HD-DVD: Front page, Back page
Toshiba's HD-DVD future uncertain: Front page, Back page
Hopefully this is only temporary while the last bugs are being fixed?
In case of duplicate content you can use the report button to notify a moderator. Threads will most probably be merged then.
and the quality of news went down.. I wondered about that. News about XP vs Vista..
*sigh* Can we try and work on that.
*sigh* Can we try and work on that.
Yay my username is in the image! This is a great feature nice add!
This is a great feature nice add!
Excellent - We been needing this feature for awhile.
Funny... It didn't worked on the latest Internet Explorer 8 news.
It hasn't worked on any of the news I've posted either, including the article I submitted today.
It dosn't happen automatically, it has to be done manually.
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