We are testing an alternate home page that attempts to strike a better balance with categories than the current home page. Right now, the Propeller home page shows the top ranked stories on the site, regardless of category. Propeller members show a great interest in politics, and this being an election year makes the focus even stronger. As a result, the Propeller home page has been dominated by politics stories. Also, we have noticed an imbalance in the political ideologies represented on the home page. Changes to the Propeller ranking engine, using these new categories, attempt to allow highly ranked stories in each of the Politics categories to co-exist, and the overall balance highlights other categories as well.

Important to note here is that this balance was requested (no, demanded) by you. We have been listening. We hope to have a short testing cycle on this new home page configuration - for those that want to see this alternate home page right now, you can view it here. Also - please start submitting your stories in the correct (in some cases, new) categories, to help us really make the new home page great.

Thanks to everyone for submitting feedback -- it has been monumentally helpful.

Happy Propelling,

Tom