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Why aren't Vulkan and Lumberyard in the news section of the site?

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Started by Hexmind February 27, 2016 10:55 PM

3 comments, last by swiftcoder 8 years, 4 months ago

Hexmind

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February 27, 2016 10:55 PM

I'm just curious as to why two major new technologies are nowhere to be seen in the news. Am I missing something here or perhaps I just don't know how to navigate? It seems those two are very pertinent to this site, and are definitely news.

Clicking in the "Top in 24 hours" shows "Seven-Part Intel ...", which comes on top at the time of writing this, and takes you to a page with a date of August 13, 2013.

Is it possible for members to contribute to the News, and help the webmasters? It also would be nice if the headers included the date it was added to the site.

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Brain

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February 28, 2016 12:27 AM

That news comes from some kind of rss feed, I am not sure it's updated any more.

It would be better if we could contribute to the news, definitely. Anyone higher up able to put such a system in place? :)

Edit: current news is just plain broken for me atm and leaks system configuration values to visitors. I get a php error in place of an article:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/gamedev/admin/applications_addon/ips/ccs/sources/pages.php(458) : eval()'d code on line 3965

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Promit

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February 28, 2016 12:47 AM

There's nobody here who writes news posts, and I'm not sure that there has been since I stopped writing the Dailies however many years ago now.

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Servant of the Lord

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February 28, 2016 01:34 AM

It would be better if we could contribute to the news, definitely. Anyone higher up able to put such a system in place?

Perhaps if there was a "News" subforum (maybe under "Business", or maybe Community), and any threads in that subforum show up on the News feed which just links to that thread.

Or just get rid of the news altogether.