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BBC descriptions are short and uninformative. #32

Open Taiiwo opened 11 years ago

Taiiwo commented 11 years ago

What does everybody think about using OTS?

edlongman commented 11 years ago

I think we should show the short while the ots summary loads then show the full summary below the short description On 12 Aug 2013 18:01, "Taiiwo" notifications@github.com wrote:

What does everybody think about using OTS?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/edlongman/thescoop/issues/32 .

jake-patt commented 11 years ago

Definitely choose one or the other. If someone starts reading the short summary and the OTS one appears, it would be confusing.

I'm in favour of using OTS for all news sources (including BBC). It'd make the site more consistent once we integrate BBC fully

samuelhoenle commented 11 years ago

I think the current way is just fine, maybe we should make it clear that it is just a description. We could also display the description by default (no click required) and display the summary on click.

jake-patt commented 11 years ago

Our site is meant to summarise articles though... the description is too short also

Taiiwo commented 11 years ago

I think that could work, as the BBC titles are very short. Use it as a subtitle.

samuelhoenle commented 11 years ago

Ok, I'll handle that.