thumbd now has a basic ranking language installed.

Here’s some highlights:

1) Stories can only stay on the main page for 48 hours - after their initial 48 hour run, the stories become ineligible for main page status - they might still be displayed as a “random story”
2) Stories with the most thumbs will stay at the top

The basic system will require people both submitting stories, and then taking the time to review and thumb other stories. As the community builds, the pace of submissions, and the quality of submissions should change drastically.

I’m working on more of the programming today, but the basic system seems very functional to me, with only a few annoying bugs that need squashing.

The website continues to fare well in Google, with over 71 pages indexed as of today.

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