Thanks for commenting. So, the latest admin-UI is that we have decide which core tags to give a post before deciding whether to frontpage it, which is a trivial inconvenience, which leads to delays. At the minute I do care a fair bit about getting the core tags right, so I’m not sure what the best thing to do about this is.
Yeah, to be clear, I agree on both counts, see my reply to adam below about how long I think the frontpage decisions should take. I do think the tags are important so it’s been good to experiment with this, but it isn’t the right call to have delays of this length in general and I/the team should figure out a way to prevent the delays pretty soon.
Added: Actually, I think that as readers use tags more to filter their frontpage posts, it’ll be more important to many of them that a post is filtered in/out of their feed, than whether it was frontpaged efficiently. But I agree that for author experience, efficiency of frontpage is a big deal.
Okay, this makes sense. Personally, that’s slightly annoying because this means a post I wrote yesterday will probably be lost in the burst of posts pushed to Frontpage (as I assume it would be going to Frontpage), but I also value the tag system, so I can take a hit or two for that.
That being said, it doesn’t seem sustainable for you: the backlog keeps growing, and I assume the delays will too, resulting in posts pushed to Frontpage a long time after they were posted.
I just went through and tagged+frontpaged the 10 outstanding posts.
In general I think it’s necessary for at least 95% of posts to be frontpaged-or-not within 24 hours of being published, and I think we can get the median to be under 12 hours, and potentially much faster. I don’t actually have a number for that, maybe we should just put the average time for the past 14 days on the admin-UI to help us keep track.
Thanks for commenting. So, the latest admin-UI is that we have decide which core tags to give a post before deciding whether to frontpage it, which is a trivial inconvenience, which leads to delays. At the minute I do care a fair bit about getting the core tags right, so I’m not sure what the best thing to do about this is.
This seems kind of terrible? I expect authors and readers care more about new posts being published than about the tags being pristine.
Yeah, to be clear, I agree on both counts, see my reply to adam below about how long I think the frontpage decisions should take. I do think the tags are important so it’s been good to experiment with this, but it isn’t the right call to have delays of this length in general and I/the team should figure out a way to prevent the delays pretty soon.
Added: Actually, I think that as readers use tags more to filter their frontpage posts, it’ll be more important to many of them that a post is filtered in/out of their feed, than whether it was frontpaged efficiently. But I agree that for author experience, efficiency of frontpage is a big deal.
Okay, this makes sense. Personally, that’s slightly annoying because this means a post I wrote yesterday will probably be lost in the burst of posts pushed to Frontpage (as I assume it would be going to Frontpage), but I also value the tag system, so I can take a hit or two for that.
That being said, it doesn’t seem sustainable for you: the backlog keeps growing, and I assume the delays will too, resulting in posts pushed to Frontpage a long time after they were posted.
I just went through and tagged+frontpaged the 10 outstanding posts.
In general I think it’s necessary for at least 95% of posts to be frontpaged-or-not within 24 hours of being published, and I think we can get the median to be under 12 hours, and potentially much faster. I don’t actually have a number for that, maybe we should just put the average time for the past 14 days on the admin-UI to help us keep track.
Thanks! And I think the delay you mention fit with my intuition about this.