Please appraise my News aggregator website

[cipcip]

Hi guys,

I have been working in the last week to create this news website. It has a classic newspaper look. The theme is bought from Themeforest.net.
I am seeking feedback about the website and it's potential value as a developed domain name.

The domain name itself was approved at SquadHelp, but I withdrawn it since after 6 months it wasn't sold so I decided to develop it.

What the site is about ?

Will give you news from more than 50 countries from all over the world. News in that respective language. You will find a filter on the top by country and choose what you like, for example:
- https://topeditions.com/country/us for United States
- https://topeditions.com/country/ca for Canada

This is a news aggregator website retrieving news through API. It has more than 100k news in the system, so that means more than 100k unique links which are groing daily with ~2000 - 3000 news per day.

Features:
- Comments system;
- Views system to show you the top viewed news in your country or globally;
- SEO urls;
- Invisible recaptcha for form submits;
- Gave opportunity to people to share news via Facebook or Twitter for more exposure / traffic

Example of news from US: https://topeditions.com/country/us/...itness-will-detail-trump-s-abuse-of-power-cnn

Example of an author page from the United Arab Emirates: https://topeditions.com/author/Www.wam.ae

Example of a search page: https://topeditions.com/search?q=trump

I know that the site loads slow for whatever reason, will try to improve that, also I am in the process of creating the Facebook and Twitter links.

Thanks,
Cristian

 

[cipcip]

Link to the news source should be obvious and there, because it's ethical and useful.

Hi, the link is present, check any news post and you will find a read more link that contains the original post.

Thanks,
Cristian

 

[aelko]

The site looks good. It may make sense to add automatic country switching. For example, if a user lives in Germany, he immediately sees German news. Without using the menu. Node.js has modules that can identify a country by IP address. I am sure that in python and php there is also something similar. Users are lazy. Especially new users. They look only at the main page and then leave. I also noticed that the favicon is not displayed on the site.

 

[cipcip]

Thank you for the idea @aelko it's actually a really great idea, I did not thought of it so far. I will try and implement it in the following week and let you guys know once it is done.

 

[Matt Morgan]

Hi cipcip, nice site with a great set of features for the users to chose and pick.

incorporate the country suggestion by Aelko even it it takes more development and money to do, it would be a neat feature.

Otherwise nice use of images to your stories, and nice big headlines which stick out.

Well done cipcip

 

[Wesley S]

The site looks good. It may make sense to add automatic country switching. For example, if a user lives in Germany, he immediately sees German news. Without using the menu. Node.js has modules that can identify a country by IP address. I am sure that in python and php there is also something similar. Users are lazy. Especially new users. They look only at the main page and then leave. I also noticed that the favicon is not displayed on the site.

i concur, otherwise excellent website. congrats!

 

[cipcip]

@aelko @Matt Morgan @The Durfer

Job done :D
Please test and let me know if everything is in order for you. I tested only with US and RO locale, but it should work for all others as well and be redirected to your language.

Thanks,
Cristian

 

[Timothy Carambat]

This layout is sick. What stack is this running on. I also had some pretty big load times (1.37s or more - could be my connection tbh).

Are the articles scraped and stored on a backend and retrieved or are they scraped at runtime? The button in the bottom left says "Take Me Top" which can probably just be summarized to "To Top" since that's a typical web component most sites have. Also, I cannot load the favicon for some reason??

As far as content and layout this is really good!

 

[cipcip]

Hello @Timothy Carambat
Sorry for the late response, I was in vacation last week without any access to my pc.

The articles are scraped and stored in the database, they are not scraped at runtime.
The favicon is not created yet, I have the link inside the header though, just to be easily added afterwards when created.

Glad you like it, will try to improve as time goes and as people suggest

Thanks,
Cristian