At the moment, yes, you would need to install the Subscribe plugin. And give free subscribed pages to whoever you want to have this feature.
I haven't enabled a non-subscriber way to do this because frankly I can't imagine a site wanting to give this access to everyone. If you want everyone to see your stories 20 minutes earlier, why don't you just subtract 20 minutes from their timestamps?:)
If someone tells me a good reason why this would be useful for non-subscribers, I'll get around to making it a var, eventually.
I do not really know, if this makes sense, it just came to me when I read you indirect question. See it as some sort of brain dump...;-)
Idea a) Don't allow comment's at that time. (Because they may still edited.)
Idea b) randomly choose non-subscribers that see the story. This would be another way for avoid the slashdot effect (which probably is nowhere as strong as at slashdot itself, which has a solution), so that let's say 30% see the story earlier.
P.S.: Good point with the 20min substraction...;-)
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This [slashdot.org] will answer your question, I think.
Cheers!
Brent
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I haven't enabled a non-subscriber way to do this because frankly I can't imagine a site wanting to give this access to everyone. If you want everyone to see your stories 20 minutes earlier, why don't you just subtract 20 minutes from their timestamps? :)
If someone tells me a good reason why this would be useful for non-subscribers, I'll get around to making it a var, eventually.
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Idea a) Don't allow comment's at that time. (Because they may still edited.)
Idea b) randomly choose non-subscribers that see the story. This would be another way for avoid the slashdot effect (which probably is nowhere as strong as at slashdot itself, which has a solution), so that let's say 30% see the story earlier.
P.S.: Good point with the 20min substraction...
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Yeah, that'd be the logical approach to all this. Good point.
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