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News and Moderation

All of the code for news is located here and the templates are here .

The model structure is a bit more advanced than many aspects of the Boost website. All news items inherit from a base concrete class Entry. So a particular type of news, for example Links, has a physical database table named news_link that has a pointer type ForeignKey to the corresponding item in news_entry.

This allows for fast/efficient listing of all News items in reverse chronological order, but also allows for different types of news to add fields specific to their type. As of launch, only Polls take advantage of this feature but it there to allow for better flexability in the future.

Definition of Published

An item is considered published and visible to all users, logged in and anonymous, if:

  • The published date is in the past
  • The item has been approved by a moderator

Moderation

If a user is a moderator, when they create news the items are automatically approved. This is to avoid an annoying scenario where a moderator enters a new news item, then has to go to the Moderation List page to approve it.

However, this does mean moderators can publish things easily which might for example include typos.

Who can moderate?

Users can moderate if:

  • The user posses the change_entry permission to the News Entry model
  • The user is in a group which posses the change_entry permission to the News Entry model
  • The user is a Superuser

AI-generated entry summaries

When an Entry is saved without a summary, news/tasks.py dispatches a Celery task that asks an LLM (via OpenRouter, default model gpt-oss-120b) to produce a short plain-text summary, then writes it back to the entry. Clearing the summary field and saving triggers regeneration.

This is the same OpenRouter integration used by the Boost release-notes "What's New" summary in versions/tasks.py. Both share OPENROUTER_API_KEY — see Environment Variables.