Fantastic winter games!
These days it feels good to be from Sweden! I’m of course talking about the fantastic performances in Vancouver! Just finished watching the mens relay, wow!
Updates on XCStorm development
We’ve been working on a new version of XCStorm (2.0!) for some time but it’s not until now we’ve got started “for real”.
Control the flow
One of the main issues with the existing XCStorm is that when the flow of news becomes large, the page is practically useless. It’s very hard to find relevant and interesting news on the front page. That has gotten many people to prefer using only the RSS-feed (including me) from XCStorm.
We’ve been peeking at Reddit and Worldofo for solutions to how they have solved this. So we are planning on doing our own flavour of a “voting-system” where you upvote news you find interesting. That way we can construct different pages for “featured” and “latest” news.
We’re probably removing or at least changing the “Most read in x days” (insert date into x) completly.
Filtering and other good stuff
In the new version everything will be filterable as well, we’re also adding Twitter-news for those interested in that. I’ve also begun creating an API for XCStorm so you can snatch the news you want from us. It will be accessable by JSON.
Cheers!
/ Anders & Pär
http://www.xc1.se
