<story><title>Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m working on something that you might like - though it&amp;#x27;s not released yet.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a news site that doesn&amp;#x27;t write articles. It just organizes links to other peoples articles, and links to original sources, into sagas that unfolded over time.&lt;p&gt;For stories of sufficient note I&amp;#x27;d like to offer the ability to subscribe to them and get email notifications when something major changes. Unfortunately I suspect that for the long tail of other stories I will need to rely on a wiki-style model for gathering links, and probably can&amp;#x27;t send notifications without it becoming a source of spam.&lt;p&gt;The brief version of the motivation for this is basically three fold:&lt;p&gt;- Most stories of any interest really unfold over a period of weeks to years, but the current news cycle really only favors reporting on them as a single one time event. I&amp;#x27;d like that to change.&lt;p&gt;- Most news sites seem to have a severe allergy to linking to original sources, but often the original sources have a lot of value.&lt;p&gt;- I&amp;#x27;d often like to be able to compare new articles to what I&amp;#x27;ve already read on the topic.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Send me an email (my email is on my profile), and I&amp;#x27;ll send you one back once I have a MVP released. That&amp;#x27;s just my personal email, and I promise not to add you to a mailing list or anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xCMP</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re actually sort-of describing the original idea for Vox. They wanted to basically have like a website of &lt;i&gt;things happening&lt;/i&gt; with explainers for everything they could easily link-to and keep updated so they could write a story explaining an event and provide context for experts and normal consumers.&lt;p&gt;e.g. Explainers on the budget process and what happened before with regulations of some kind. etc. And that only becomes relevant to readers when it becomes important and if they&amp;#x27;re interested in it.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately because of social media, AMP, and etc. they &lt;i&gt;had to fit in the article format&lt;/i&gt; even though they had big plans for doing richer UIs on the website itself. They basically were forced to pivot into a blog which I think they still do a good job at today cause the mission is still similar, but the mechanics of getting people to read things which aren&amp;#x27;t articles is difficult.&lt;p&gt;[This is all from memory of an episode of Erza Klein&amp;#x27;s Vox Podcast where the founders talk about the original ideas of Vox and why they ended up where they were]</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m working on something that you might like - though it&amp;#x27;s not released yet.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a news site that doesn&amp;#x27;t write articles. It just organizes links to other peoples articles, and links to original sources, into sagas that unfolded over time.&lt;p&gt;For stories of sufficient note I&amp;#x27;d like to offer the ability to subscribe to them and get email notifications when something major changes. Unfortunately I suspect that for the long tail of other stories I will need to rely on a wiki-style model for gathering links, and probably can&amp;#x27;t send notifications without it becoming a source of spam.&lt;p&gt;The brief version of the motivation for this is basically three fold:&lt;p&gt;- Most stories of any interest really unfold over a period of weeks to years, but the current news cycle really only favors reporting on them as a single one time event. I&amp;#x27;d like that to change.&lt;p&gt;- Most news sites seem to have a severe allergy to linking to original sources, but often the original sources have a lot of value.&lt;p&gt;- I&amp;#x27;d often like to be able to compare new articles to what I&amp;#x27;ve already read on the topic.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Send me an email (my email is on my profile), and I&amp;#x27;ll send you one back once I have a MVP released. That&amp;#x27;s just my personal email, and I promise not to add you to a mailing list or anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>indogooner</author><text>This sounds very useful. The quality of sagas would matter a lot. This is from my personal experience of trying to build a news site in my past life which cuts the clutter and focuses on facts. The problem I faced was in how do I decide which link to choose without biases. This turned off a lot of people who did not conform to that view. Even on clear topics. For instance most people agree racism is bad but there would be diverse opinion on where to draw the line and what actions constitute racism.&lt;p&gt;However there are quite a few topics where you could be objective - sports scores, election results, new releases etc.&lt;p&gt;Good luck. Hope to see it on Show HN one day.</text></comment>