New Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Media and Information!

I feel I'm going to overdose on info today.

omg awesome :D

You know, this website's system doesn't work in its current state. News like this take forever to make it to the home page then they're not even news anymore. It just can't mimic digg when digg is built for a different public (many more people etc).

The system has to adapt itself to the environment or community it wants to achieve, not the other way around.

Just my $0.02.

Yes Zeh, indeed, it requires a lot more posts to work properly. Once ET:QW is released, mod teams start working and all the reviews, articles and guides show up it will work better (or it'll be tweaked).

Btw, 3 hours to get to the front page ain't that bad I guess ;]

Yes, I know.. In this case it even took less than 3 hours. I guess people knew about it and visited the website, or it's because it's a monday, or something. But other than this, it's a trend I'm seeing happening all the time; sometimes, some news items will take literally days if not an entire week to make it to the front page, until enough people visit the semi-secret "new posts" section and vote for it. It kinda defeats the whole purpose of "news".

Even with more popularity after ET:QW release, I'm not very certain a digg clone is the best choice. I don't even know if the new TRS chances anything on that system, but I can't shake this feeling that the system (as it is now) is like a big garage built to park an unicycle.

But yeah... we'll have to wait for the release to properly judge the system so I'll reserve further analysis and judgement for later.

Personally I don't see it as a news site, rather a link farm. I don't think it will ever get to the point where something that is submitted will make it to the front page in 5 minutes. And it doesn't have to in my opinion. There are a lot of great traditional ET:QW sites with editors and news writers out there like quakewarscenter.com or quake-wars.eu which do the job of posting news on the front page the moment they happen :]