Show HN: A better way to consume news

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The news business model is fear = clicks = $$. I built a website to combat that to some degree by giving the user to pick the topics before seeing the headlines and also seeing both sides of every topic's reporting.

The NLP model is still improving and happy to hear feedback.

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Suggestion: don’t default the mood selector to “angry face.” Put it in the middle. My first glance at the page gave me the impression that all the news is horrible!

Thank you for the feedback. I have been wondering what the best way to represent things could be. The home page starts off with "no filters" but news tends to be skewed to the negative so the default is angry-face.

News skews negative, but you purport to combat that; the headline mood should align with your goal.

Fair point. Done.

“Filter topics by mood” still positions the slider to the left (angry) side. “Mood” column is still predominantly angry faces. IPad, Safari, haven’t upgraded to the latest OS.

If you land on exactly newssnips.fyi then the website redirects you to a preset slider value.

Ah. Perhaps dang can rewrite the URL linked to the headline.

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