MacRumors announcement: Brief stories

[Joe Rossignol]

Hello everyone,

MacRumors is experimenting with brief stories on the front page.

These will be extra stories alongside our regular full-length ones.

Here is our first one: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/nintendo-music-carplay/

These stories will typically be just a few sentences, have a small image, and lack a Show Full Article button.

The aim here is for MacRumors to cover a wider variety of topics that tie into the Apple ecosystem — typically smaller ones that we might not have time to write a full story on.

Feel free to provide your feedback! It is truly appreciated.

Even if you do not like it, do let us know, so that we can re-evaluate or tweak things if many people feel that way.

Thank you! cc @arn

 

[S.B.G]

Looks good to me. I think it will be useful and quick to see and understand.

 

[jz0309]

Hello everyone,

MacRumors is experimenting with brief stories on the front page.

These will be extra stories alongside our regular full-length ones.

Here is our first one: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/nintendo-music-carplay/

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These stories will typically be just a few sentences, have a small image, and lack a Show Full Article button.

The aim here is for MacRumors to cover a wider variety of topics that tie into the Apple ecosystem — typically smaller ones that we might not have time to write a full story on.

Feel free to provide your feedback! It is truly appreciated.

Even if you do not like it, do let us know, so that we can re-evaluate or tweak things if many people feel that way.

Thank you! cc @arn

I think I like it, certainly this first one.
At the same time, given some of the other threads in this sub-forum, I think opinions will differ (example of too many deals articles comes to mind) but imho more is better, after all we all know how to scroll 😉

Keep it up, I'll keep reading 😎

 

[Nermal]

With the image where it is, the "hover to preview" feature of Xenforo only gives you part of the image and no actual information.

 

[fatTribble]

I saw this earlier today and did take notice of it.
I like it. If it’s of no interest, it’s easy to skip over.
But also easy to read more.
I could see a lot of uses for this.

 

[I7guy]

Think it’s a nice concept, but to me is missing something. Needs an additional call-out, like “MacRumors - Quick Bite” or something else to call out it’s a quick read.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I think this is a great idea. Too often the articles on MR are repetitive and filled with information that really isn't needed.

 

[Joe Rossignol]

Think it’s a nice concept, but to me is missing something. Needs an additional call-out, like “MacRumors - Quick Bite” or something else to call out it’s a quick read.

We're considering a "Brief" label. Maybe something like this. No guarantees.

 

[zenmacx]

Great idea, including the “Brief” label is excellent.

Kudos to the staff for keeping this site informative and interesting!