How can I filter the Firehose to see what I want?
The text field in the top right corner is where you enter filter terms. You can sort for any particular type of entry by entering its type into the field and hitting enter. For example, doing “journal” would sort for journal entries. You can also sort for story, comment, feed, bookmark, and submission. Putting a “-” in front of a type will exclude that type. For example: “-feed” would exclude all RSS feeds. You can also sort for things like “linux”, “openbsd” or “riaa” to see stories with those tags or comments and submissions that mention them. You can set it to display particular users or editors if you’d like to see just the things they’ve contributed by doing “user:CmdrTaco”. We realize this is a lot to take in, so we’ve given you several easy ways to see what readers are usually most interested in. The left side menu lets you sort by topic; hitting the Games link will show you entries related to games. Once you’ve used a term in the filter field, you’ll notice a new entry in the s
