We now have a basic news filter.
You can filter by news type and games via the Menu (three lines) next to "All News" on the front page . For now it only works if you are logged in. Your settings will be saved in the database.
News type:
This is a white list filter. You select news types you want shown on the front page. If nothing is selected, no filter is applied, which means: show all news types.
Games / Developers / Publishers:
This is a blacklist filter. On the right hand side in the actual news bits, in the little info box, there's a link called "
Hide". You can use it to stop showing news for that particular game. You can later remove blacklist entries via the filter menu.
If you filter too many games out, the menu will get very big. I haven't thought of anything to address that, so don't filter too much if you want to stay sane.
The two new categories "crowdfunding" and "sales" have been in use for a week or so. I re-categorized all previous newsbits with "*fund*, *kickstart*, *indiegogo* or *sale*" in their titles.
I think that it'd be nice if all newsposts had tags associated with them so that you could filter for example: reviews of post-apocalyptic games. And then get a list of of fitting articles all the way back to 2006.
I have game-tags planned for a future update. Filtering by tag may come afterwards.
As to sorting it'd also be nice if the news feed was an endless feed / scroll. And you sort by most recently posted (default), trending and most recently commented on.
Endless feed or something along those lines is something for later. Sort filter sounds nice, too.