Why dont you post news?

Sushi

Kazinsal wrote:
Speaking on behalf of Broken Bonds, it’s because we don’t have anything newsworthy yet. We’ll definitely submit some news when we have something to submit, though.

What exactly would make something mod-related “newsworthy” in the eyes of the Starport administration team?

Anything to show regarding the mod, whether this be new models, systems, features, something of that sort. I’d recommend it being longer than a sentence or two, though.

Pictures or videos are also a nice feature.

Bas

I submitted a minor news. Hm. Couldn’t you increase the max characters maybe?

w0dk4

Bas wrote:
I submitted a minor news. Hm. Couldn’t you increase the max characters maybe?

Thats only for the front page, so you can exceed the limit.
Also, the front page actually shows all of the news in full length.

w0dk4

Huor wrote:

What news do you expect to be posted? If there is something happening on the server? About events on the server?
I expect to get news about modding progress over here. Eventually new eye candy stuff or get to know about problems that appearing when modding. Thats the reason i visit this place. And therefore its a good resource. You can be proud of this - generally because i guess that the reason other visitors are hitting up this site as well
That your frontpage gets a lot of hits must not mean its by regular visitors - does it? Bots and crawlers are contributing to this too.

Your site is a Freelancer “only” site thats the title saying. And i dont expect to read news here about other games - because I have other sites where i can take these kind of news from.
Furthermore i dont expect that (in my case) someone is interested whats happening on Crossfire (besides the other minor differences between our both communities). Imo.

Well, obviously news like “Clan XYZ has formed on server A” are kind of uninteresting, but things like new versions, modding progress, major server events, interesting news about new space sims, etc… can all be posted on the front page.

Bas

I edited the front news and the post (post first, then news entry) and it seems the forums thread isn’t shown anymore @ latest posts.

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4069&forum=2&post_id=43947#forumpost43947

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w0dk4

Bas wrote:
I edited the front news and the post (post first, then news entry) and it seems the forums thread isn’t shown anymore @ latest posts.

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4069&forum=2&post_id=43947#forumpost43947

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You only need to edit the news, the post is automatically updated. And it still shows on the latest posts section for me.

Bas

For me too now again. Don’t ask me why.

Bas

I updated the news entry again and the thread isn’t shown @ LP again.

w0dk4

Bas wrote:
I updated the news entry again and the thread isn’t shown @ LP again.

Seems like I need to re-approve after edits… now stop editing

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Suggestion to TSP staff - give availability for admins or server players to post news about Events on differents servers

Example:

<nice picture=“”>Capture The Flag event on the server XYZ at GMT+n
Welcome!</nice>

FriendlyFire

Anybody can post news on the front page, so I’m not sure what you mean Helloween.

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FriendlyFire wrote:
Anybody can post news on the front page, so I’m not sure what you mean Helloween.

Ah, I read W0dk4s thoughts but not the message )

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I have posted.
How is it? Ok?

FriendlyFire

Up

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FriendlyFire wrote:
Up

Nice! Thx : )

NeXoSE

We have news everyday, like this, i think we need a journalist.

Bas

I submitted a news 3 or 4 times now, but I got a blanko page everytime. Has it still come through to you?

w0dk4

No. Can you make a screenshot of what you inserted into the fields so we can figure out why it is failing?

Bas

Here it is.

Maybe because of the text body? -707 characters?

This would fit with OP’s reports because I know he tends to write “large news”…?

Bas

I tried again meanwhile, now I am getting this error:

text/html
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mime_content_type() in /webspace/web/starport/www/modules/news/class/class.newsstory.php on line 1360