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As some of you may already have noticed, we have stopped marking stories as having hit the homepage for the purposes of showing them on a member's stat page. We are reevaluating our homepage configuration, as well as the calculation of member site rankings.

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populist
April 3, 2007, 7:42 p.m.
interesting. hope this isn't going the way of the digg top users list (the trash), but excited to see what ideas the netscape team is coming up with!
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junda
April 3, 2007, 11:47 p.m.
Yes will wait and see,with respect to all staff here ,I'm a new and young member here ,I'm also interested to try this ,that and explore with submission (even I still have zero home page story )
thanks
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ind06
April 4, 2007, 5:13 a.m.
I wish your article went into more specific detail about the changes you're considering. It's difficult to make any relevant suggestions if I'm only told that you're thinking of changing things.
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AnvilHead
April 4, 2007, 10:38 a.m.
And I was just begining to look forward to this.
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Webreader
April 4, 2007, 1:33 p.m.
I think we have a case of overloaded minds turning to mush! I'd say this story should've been posted in "Humor" instead of "Gadgets & Tech" Obviously no one is getting too technical here. Requires too much memory.
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BhaktaRajPrabhu
April 4, 2007, 1:46 p.m.
I don't know what Netscape has done...they took something that worked and turned it into a bland sheet of paper. And of course AOL had to get into the picture. It's the old story of a company doing something well, then merging with another company, and the product starts to stink.
The greed abounds!
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ind06
April 4, 2007, 3:50 p.m.
I'm going to politely ask that an anchor please update this post to give specific information about the changes being considered. I would like to know about planned changes to the home page and the calculating of member site rankings. Please do not ignore me.
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joeeddie
April 4, 2007, 4:16 p.m.
Now for the question that is just begging to be asked:
Will these changes make it easier for navigators' stories to make it to the front page?
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stephen-johnson
April 5, 2007, 12:10 a.m.
This is, no doubt, a response to the tsumami of Rosie/911 Truther posts that have dominated the Homepage lately. Even after sending group messages to mutual friends has been eliminated, people still have found a way to game the system.