Talk

If you mean the talk topic, then it's up to us to generate new content.

I thought that bit on the side was simply the most active threads

I thought the In the News bit on the side was just anything that was newsworthy.

No matter what area it's posted in.

in the news has been awfully stagnant for quite a while.

I'm sure Trump will liven things up.

President Trump inauguarated
Trump tweets about China
Trump tweets about North Korea
Nuclear missiles on standby
You've got 3 minutes

Theresa May did a speech today. It was quite important.
Bet there's a thread somewhere about it.

Brexit threads will be in their own topic, not in "In The News" so wouldn't be picked up to go on the sidebar.

Brexit threads will be in their own topic, not in "In The News

Yes - but In the News covers things that are newsworthy - and not necessarily in the News topic.

2 of them are in Chat
3 of them are in the News.

Otherwise what's the point of that space - they could put more sponsorship places there.

Must admit I've been a bit perplexed by the 'In the News' section - do you think MNHQ have forgotten it's there?

Never should have been taken off the links at the bottom of the page...
<grumble grumble>

(I'm sure I will get over this one day...!)

There's some news at the moment.

National courgette shortage, apparently

sounds like we're not making the most of In the News

Meanwhile in the news, there's a national courgette shortage.

Anything else?

Certainly nothing of note happening on the other side of the pond

Anything else?

Biggest demonstration by women [and men] in the history of women.

But courgettes...they pretty much run the world so priorities...

No one posts in In The News. It's not HQ's fault (although I do think they should move stuff out of chat and aibu and in to the relevant topic but that's just me).

Also in the news - Andy Murray.

No one posts in In The News

Yes but the In the News SIDEBAR on the right is what we are talking about. Not the In the News forum.

MN take some threads about things in the news that are anywhere on MN and puts links to them.

Yep - the 'in the news' sidebar links to threads anywhere, not just those in "in the news" (bit of a confusing sentence!)

Oh I see. I thought that sidebar just linked to threads in In The News .

Which is why, I thought, it always looks so lame, lurking there under the cheesy video links to recipes and podcasts and other fripperies.

I'll give you 3.

Toast and cancer
Trump becomes President.
Court rules on the EU court case.

Don't forget:

Tiggy has bit of a cold.
&
"Set honey much better than runny" Exclaims Tiggy.

Big news this week - Tom Hardy is going to be on cbeebies...

Chelsea Manning's sentence being commuted is an odd choice to still be hanging around in the In The News section...