Starfleet News Service

  • davedorm

    (@davedorm)


    17 years ago

    Just wanted to see what people thought of a new site I am working on. It’s called Starfleet News Service.

    It’s a grand experiment. This website is still in the construction phases. Right now, it is simply aggregating news from other sources around the Internet. Eventualy, this website will do much more than just an aggregate news feeds. The entire point of view of this site is from that of the Star Trek and Science Fiction fans. Mainstream media covers fans in, unfortunately, a negative light. We want to shake off the myth that fans are “losers” living in their parents’ basement.

    Very soon, Starfleet News Service will begin offering its own content. Stories from conventions, fan clubs, collectors and more. News by fans, for fans.

    The site uses the FeedWordPress plugin to syndicate content, plus we are building a “group blog” to write feature content for the site.

    Let me know what you think.

    Link: https://www.starfleetnews.com/
    [Link added for clarity]

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  • Gestroud

    (@gestroud)

    I guess this is the web address: https://www.starfleetnews.com/

    Great idea for a fan site with some fine content. Nice job on implementing the FeedWordPress Plugin; I’m having a heck of a time getting it to work.

    Site loads a wee bit slowly – probably because it’s grabbing feeds from other sites.

    Don’t know how to say this properly, but the theme looks a little too “20th century” for such a futurisic site. Don’t know if that makes any sense. ??

    Thread Starter davedorm

    (@davedorm)

    Wow, so duh, I did not put in the link. Needed sleep when I posted that, thanks for catching it.

    gestroud wrote:

    Site loads a wee bit slowly – probably because it’s grabbing feeds from other sites.

    Yeah, someone else said the same thing. But the site is not loading feeds, they are already loaded and in the database as posts. The image up top, and the headline images, may be slowing things down a little, I don’t know. I also am not using WP-Cache, my understanding is that will also speed things up.

    It loads pretty fast for me at home and also at work. I am hosted by Dreamhost, they usually have a phat pipe.

    the theme looks a little too “20th century” for such a futurisic site

    I wanted to get away from the “Trekkie” look. That stupid “LCARS” computer look, gray text on black background, etc. I wanted a NEWS PAGE not a TREKKIE PAGE.

    I am only using excerpts on the index page, when a visitor clicks through, the article is complete with graphics and such, where available.

    I appreciate the input.

    manon1165

    (@manon1165)

    Got this when I tried to access the link:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/.totsie/davedorm/starfleetnews.com/wp-content/themes/starfleetnews/header.php on line 12

    Thread Starter davedorm

    (@davedorm)

    Yeah, manon1165, you must have caught me when I was hacking. It’s working fine now, thanks. In fact, I have switched to the Mandigo theme and switched from FeedWordPress to WP-o-Matic. I am not sure that was a wise choice. I switched to avoid the duplicate posts I was getting from FeedWordPress, but I am also getting them from WP-o-Matic, so it must be that the feeds are crap.

    Anyway, check it out. It’s not ugly like it was before.

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