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crestfallen | 2 years ago

This is really cool. Thanks for making it! I think the factual (not calling it neutral) POV is the correct one. The length of the text is good for the summary; not too little but not too much either. Though I do agree with other commenters that a "go deeper" type action could be neat. The presentation works for me.

A profile of some kind could be nice for down the road. What kind of news stories do you want to see?

One thing most news is AWFUL at is the timeline of the topic in an easy digestible way. Let's say it's the conflict in the middle east. Sure, here's the new story from today. Most outlets may put a link or two to a related story, but other than the relation, there's not much more context to it.

Within the story block — or as a separate section or something? — it would be cool to have almost like a "timeline" summary view. Here's how this thing/topic started and changed and here's how we got to where we are today. Maybe that's an overall summary of several stories. Maybe it's a general overview with links to all the specific stories over time. I'm not sure. But it keeps getting updated with additional news. Tough problem to solve I think.

That would be an absolutely killer feature, IMO. It would add some much needed context to the news bites today, where it can be awfully easy to forget there's more to it than this one article.

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gordondavidf|2 years ago

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

I 100% agree with this and have been thinking of how it can be solved. I think embeddings open a new opportunity to get this off the ground. Worried it will include too much noise by default (Does every Elon story in chronological order come up with the latest Tesla news? Maybe? Maybe only if the target of the article is Tesla?)

You're right news is bad at this, its too hard without new tools to solve. This is a great feature request. I'll get to work. Thanks again.