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Board Project Development
Re: Crypto News Aggregator
by
cryptohappening
on 12/11/2019, 11:20:23 UTC
Good effort, you need to adjust the static interface to look more modern but I have some questions:

 - Update data: How is the data updated? Is it automatically? How long?
 - Fake News: Lots of fake news, do you have an algorithm to check it?
 - Repeat news or news is not relevant: Is there an algorithm to do it?
 - Charts: Charts seem static and cannot be adjustable.


The interface could definitely look better. Design isn't my best area lol. I'll see what I can do though to make it look more modern.

-News is pulled once an hour and is updated upon any refresh on page. All cryptocurrency market data is updated every minute. Lastly, stock market overview and bitcoin sentiment is updated once a day.
-I currently do not have an algorithm to check fake news. This is a good idea though and something I'm interested in doing. This may take some time to implement.
-I currently do not have an algorithm to check repeat news. This is another good idea and something I should be able to implement fairly easily.
-I designed the charts to be fairly static, however, I'm open to changing how you can interact with them. In what ways would you like them to be adjustable?

Thank you for the feedback Smiley

I don't think you can have a algo to check for fake news unless you do it manually. If I remember correctly, in reddit there are a lot of fake news and it can only be tagged by the moderator, meaning their's manual intervention.

Maybe you can add up a filter function though? If we wanted to see just bitcoin news, then perhaps we filter it out? Or at least a category in the side of the news, so that we won't have to go to all of them and we can easily pick the news we wanted to read.

I think you're right about fake news. Manually filtering seems like the only viable solution. I did implement a duplicate news filter on my test server but it doesn't detect news that are similar. I'm finding this much more difficult to implement but am still looking into it. As for seeing specific news, you can search at the top right and get specific news i.e. bitcoin news. Also, thanks for the feedback.