Suggestions

This is a compilation of Suggestions from various users. Think of it like a "wish list". These differ from feature requests in that they are projects that may require a significant amount of time to implement. A system should be developed for selecting from one, and having the community vote on which to tackle.

Suggestions can currently be added via suggestions@soylentnews.org or by typing "!suggestion [your suggestion here]" in our IRC rooms. You can also just add them below. You might check the TodoList before suggesting something to see if it is already being worked on.

Teams: feel free to draw from this list and move to a todo list if you would like to tackle one (please remove from here if you do).

• SoylentNewsRoundup or SNR (best stories, comments, best of IRC)
• Articles Revisited: by +5 commenters <- Submit story for discussion
  • research, correct, expand
  • re-submit to topic "revisited.soylentnews.org"
• Add a "settled arguments" section to the wiki (example: the world population is out of control!)
• Create topic/location for SoylentNews updates on main site
• RSS - enable full story (this is also logged as a bug I believe)
• Add markdown support in SoylentNews ex: http://dillinger.io/
• SoylentNews alternate logo S/N (signal/noise) (also SN = Tin atomic symbol)
• Enable Internet Archive auto-crawling (may just need to update robots.txt)
• Allow users to mod stories down.
• Allow editors to mark stories in the pipeline as a dupe
• Form to submit bugs on SoylentNews like submitting a story (using slash)
  • Pre-populate the "story" with prompts for desired info (summary, severity, error message seen, steps to reproduce, etc.)
• Add ability to easily submit journal entries to the stories queue (could just be submitted as links...)
• Host our own advertisements
  • Keep them in separate areas (sidebars, boxes)
  • Keep them (mostly) static
  • Keep the off-site javascript requirements for them minimal
• Make submitted stories headlines into hyperlinks that go to the discussion page (feature request)
• Would it be possible to have the RSS feed either include more than the last 10 stories (I would prefer the last 100), or include a variable in the RSS URL so that the user could specify their choice (ie. like &num=100). If a variable is used, then a minimum and maximum number should be defaulted by the server.
• Banner ads that people can use as forum signatures, etc. to spread the word about SoylentNews. See this archived forum thread for more information.