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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Special categories for Current Events

21-Feb-06

Some of our users suggested that we should have a temporary category so that all news items for a current event can be grouped under one category. These categories will be removed once the news item moves into the past.
We have now implemented this and these categories will be surrounded with an asterisk - *. […]

Ranking - How does it work?

07-Feb-06

Users constantly tell us that our algorithms suck because stories with low votes overtake stories with higher votes. I will discuss how we rank the stories and attempt to put all these doubts to rest.
Ranking of the stories depends on the following factors

Number of Votes - Votes make or break a story on IndianPad. A […]

IndianPad Bookmarklet

03-Feb-06

Cutting/editing/pasting links to IndianPad can get annoying pretty fast. To overcome this you may use our ‘bookmarklet‘. Its brand spanking new and allows one-click publishing from any page on the web. Check it out and let us know how we can improve it!
Comments are open here

Updated Sidebar

02-Feb-06

We recently put our sidebar on steroids and now it does a lot more work!
Recent Comments - We took your feedback and added the Recent Comments section top. This fetches the last 10 comments on the site and displays the title of the post. If you hover your mouse over the link, we even show […]