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Something I have been meaning to do for some time is finally live, you now have a little more control over the news GamingOnLinux presents to you.

You can now filter out articles from the home page, from a set of tags you pick. Don't want to see Early Access titles? How about Crowdfunding or Steam Play? Head on over to the User Control Panel, scroll down a little to the new "Content preferences" section and it will allow you to add tags there. To be clear, it will filter out any articles with any of those tags you pick.

A little video demonstration:

Since I fully understand I can't please everyone and some people would much rather just not have to see certain types of content, hopefully this will make the website cleaner and nicer to use for you. We as a community may not always agree but I am absolutely open to making it the best website it can be, for everyone.

Naturally, some might do this and still want a quick peek and so you can quickly see all news on the home page without touching your tag preferences using this link. That link can be found any time in the "Go to:" quick navigation bar right at the top of the article list as "All News".

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Beamboom Mar 28, 2019
Quoting: NezchanHard to imagine someone on Linux having such a hard time comprehending why someone would want more choices to customize their experience. But here we are.

"Customize their experience". We talk about ignoring an article we find less interesting. And even making a big issue about "how about stuff that's both featured on Steam AND is DRM free? Oh boohoo I don't want to SEE Steam in my stream, my eyes will hurt from it, but I DO want to see DRM free... What am I to do oh what oh what... Oh boohoo"

"Just shut the FUCK up and read the ingress and take it from there", is my answer to that nonsense. For heavens sake. It's just an ingress to a story. Nobody's forcing you to click on "read more".

And if we are to take this to a wider context: This is exactly how echo chambers are created. By "sparing" the viewer to see any content but what pleases them, they enter a chamber of that train of thought, and are never challenged on that. never questioned. Never nuanced. Only praised.

What if some of those DRM intolerant actually should read some of the information that came out of an article about Steam - or DRM, or whatever? What if it would have been good for them? What if someone who initially want to mentally block them out of anything that has to do with Wine and Steam Play actually would benefit, greatly, from being informed also on what goes on there, and what it does to Linux gaming as a whole. What if peoples opinions, and especially the more fanatic ones, would benefit from reading more that they disagree with, and not less? Could that contribute with nuances and perspectives? Would that ever be wrong?

Echo chambering opinions are never - NEVER - a good thing. Never. The only thing that differ is that on some areas it matters more than others. In this case: Not so much. But the principles remain.

And right now you probably think that I am a tool and have arguments against this. And that's totally fine. I probably should read them. Not have your comment filtered out because it is in disagreement with my world view.


Last edited by Beamboom on 28 March 2019 at 1:29 pm UTC
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