Classic Wire follows what is being said about World of Warcraft: Forever: community discussion, creator coverage and patch news. It checks the same list of sources on a schedule and groups what it finds by week, Monday to Sunday. One subject, followed closely, rather than everything adjacent to it.
Classic Wire is a fan project, not connected to Blizzard or to any of the sites it links to. It is a work in progress: sources get added as they turn up, and we will see how it goes.
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Every one of these is read again every 30 minutes.
By keyword, not by hand. That keeps up with five sources at once, and it is imperfect in both directions: the occasional off-topic post gets through, and the occasional World of Warcraft: Forever one is missed.
Not everything that gets picked ends up on the page. The aim is to keep the feed relevant rather than complete, so there is a limit on how much any one source or creator can add in a week, and a very busy week from one of them arrives as a handful of posts rather than all of them.
Within that limit the newest always has a place, and the rest go to whatever is getting the most attention. It is a balance we keep adjusting as the feed grows.
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