I'm looking for feed back on Atlas, a new proposal for to extend
Roller's built-in "planet" community aggregator so that it can better
support the needs of large, diverse communities of bloggers.
http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_Atlas
Here's the summary:
Currently Roller's front page displays an aggregation of the N most
recent blog posts in every blog in the system and, on a separate tab,
an aggregation of those same blogs plus a set of external blogs
defined within Roller's planet aggregator. On large blog sites,
that's just too much information. We need to make it easy to 1) find
and follow (via syndication) blogs on specific topics of interest and
in specific languages, 2) find the active blogs and topics of
discussion and 3) find users and individual weblogs within a Roller
system. This proposal describes how we can better support planet
functionality in Roller (thus the name Atlas).
- Dave
