Forum Discussion
Useless headlines
Why does Hughesnet open with a series of suggested news stories, but when the user clicks on them, he is informed "page not found"? If you are not providing access to these stories, why feature them...
This must be exactly what happened when the OP was trying to access specific stories. I only followed up on one of the titles s/he PMd me and ended up finding it by going to the source publication, but I bet the same happened to the others.
Am I right in thinking Hughesnet can't do much, if anything at all, about this?
maratsade wrote:Am I right in thinking Hughesnet can't do much, if anything at all, about this?
Absolutely nothing, because they have no control over the content of the RSS feeding the page, coming from the news aggregator. All comes down to the info that comes from the aggegrator's automated agents, scanning the web sites.
been a hughes customer for many years and have noticed a decided decline in the content of the news ticker
most of what is presented would be better suited for People magazine
do we subscribers have any way to influence this content?
The company doesn't have control over the content of the newsfeed. Not sure if they'd get any better stuff with other newsfeeds, but my guess is, it's unlikely.
The way you can influence content is to select something else as your home page. It doesn't have to be Hughesnet at all. You can select Google or anything else at all.
*I am not a Hughesnet employee or representative. This is a customer-to-customer tech support community, and I am a customer.
- Hi chiquita!
I agree. I've never used HN as my homepage, but MS Edge does the same thing--all Hollywood gossip and click-bait.
Thus, my homepage is BBC News. If you want news to come up as your homepage, you can choose from the American usual suspects, i.e. NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, etc., or go to virtually any news provider in the world.
