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It might be nice to make some room on the front page next to the top storygames and the almost-at-50-ratings storygames to showcase new storygames, and help them get a bit more attention in these trying times. It feels a bit weird that they're for the most part just tucked away at the bottom of the storygames page, where casuals and slugs may never see them at all.

I've been for this idea before. Two more boxes beneath the ones already there would maintain symmetry, we could keep the spotlight on the ten newest stories that way.

The way new stories get shafted is even more evident in the fact we're actually about to cram seven stories in the featured categories, but Newly Created is hardcoded at five.

And I know most regulars like to meme on never looking at the front page, but it's still the front page and most of the casually curious traffic comes in that way. (Also, regulars don't read shit so how can they pretend to know the activities of people who do?)

New people and people without accounts have been the ones driving 90% of rating and review activity for a pretty long time now, night as well at least try to put things where they'll see them.

Is this need covered by the Recent Storygames block that is there?

Seems like this one is taken care of.

Yes. But why is it eleven?!

Please make it an even 12, there's clearly room in the box. This is the highest priority, it haunts me.

Oh, and there's some weirdness with the way dates are handled there that might not be fixable. But also when people republish old stories it displays them there as new, and maybe that can be corrected.