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The front page follows a few fixed rules, the same for every reader. Here they are, with the numbers they use, read from the code that applies them.
Each report is weighed by how fresh it is. Its weight halves every 12 hours: a report published 12 hours ago weighs half as much as one published now, and a quarter as much after twice that. Reports are weighed one by one, so the heaviest report is the newest. A report without a publication time, or dated more than 5 minutes after our clock, weighs nothing and comes last. Edition and topic pages list all their reports by this weight.
| Age | Weight |
|---|---|
| 0 hours | 1.00 |
| 6 hours | 0.71 |
| 12 hours | 0.50 |
| 24 hours | 0.25 |
| 48 hours | 0.06 |
A Seeside Brief leads: Seeside's own writing, marked as ours and written in the language you read Seeside in. When there are more, the others follow under Seeside Brief, in the order we set.
“Top stories” holds the heaviest reports after the lead. “Live” lists the newest reports not already shown in the lead or “Top stories”, newest first. Each section then lists its own newest reports that none of these places has shown.
Inside a section, each next row is chosen by weighing its news value at 70% against whether its publisher is already shown at 30%. A second report from a publisher already shown comes next only when its news value beats the other choice by more than 43% of the section's best. When a section's reports come mostly from one publisher, that publisher still fills most of it.
Once you have opened 3 stories, your device puts the sections you read first and gives more room to the publishers you read most. Each read counts half as much after 7 days and is deleted after 28 days, the next time you open Seeside. A read records only the story's section, publisher and time, and that record stays on your device; you can turn it off and have it forgotten at any time. Analytics, which you can allow or refuse, are separate.
For the stories, nothing beyond these rules counts: no payment, no clicks, no time spent reading, no list of favoured publishers. Headlines are shown as their publishers wrote them.