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.
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.