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What is the Mysterious future and why did it show

posted by Krow on 03:52 PM March 12th, 2003      

Currently Slashdot has an article posted "in the Mysterious future" showing on the main page. What up with dat?

• stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:1)

  by dorko (4837)

  "Subscribers now see stories posted on Slashdot from The Mysterious Future!"

  This [slashdot.org] will answer your question, I think.

  Cheers!
  Brent

  • Re:stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:1)

    by dannyweb (4114)

    Is this / will this be included any time soon in Slash?
    • Re:stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:2)

      by Krow (986)

      Yep, it is in CVS.

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      • Re:stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:2)

        by tf23 (175)

        So inorder to see it in action one would need to install the Subscriber plugin to a site?

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        • Re:stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:2)

          by Krow (986)

          No, you could have it by enabling to variables. Ask Jamie about what you need to enable.

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        • Re:stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:1)

          by jamiemccarthy (414)

          At the moment, yes, you would need to install the Subscribe plugin. And give free subscribed pages to whoever you want to have this feature.

          I haven't enabled a non-subscriber way to do this because frankly I can't imagine a site wanting to give this access to everyone. If you want everyone to see your stories 20 minutes earlier, why don't you just subtract 20 minutes from their timestamps? :)

          If someone tells me a good reason why this would be useful for non-subscribers, I'll get around to making it a var, eventually.
          • Re:stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:1)

            by XTaran (2697)

            I do not really know, if this makes sense, it just came to me when I read you indirect question. See it as some sort of brain dump... ;-)
            
            Idea a) Don't allow comment's at that time. (Because they may still edited.)
            
            Idea b) randomly choose non-subscribers that see the story. This would be another way for avoid the slashdot effect (which probably is nowhere as strong as at slashdot itself, which has a solution), so that let's say 30% see the story earlier.
            
            P.S.: Good point with the 20min substraction... ;-)

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          • Re:stories posted on /. from The Mysterious Future (Score:2)

            by tf23 (175)

            I can't imagine a site wanting to give this access to everyone.
            
            Yeah, that'd be the logical approach to all this. Good point.
            
            

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