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This design trades off how much information you get from each article preview for more articles visible on the screen at once. Discussion posts are sorted by topic and events are sorted by groups/hosts. 
Storyboard - Design 2
Terry uses BeaverBuzz to check out recent articles and events for the week. He clicks on the Recent tab to see the hot new discussions. He already has specified which topics he is interested in, through the user settings. He can easily see multiple articles that have been tagged in his favorite topics. He scrolls right within the sports articles/discussions to see older posts which he missed the day before. Terry clicks on a discussion to read the comments on it.
After reading the new interesting posts, Terry decides that he wants to be able to see discussions from more topics. He clicks the add topic button and selects a topic to add to his Recent tab. Terry clicks on the My Posts tab to see if anyone has responded to any of his comments.
Terry wants to post an interesting article about MIT sports that he found online. He clicks on the new post link and enters the information for the article. He pastes the link in the description text field for people to follow to the article. He tags the article in the sports topic and posts it.Below is the page to create a new post or event
Design #3:
This design was meant to be slightly more consistent with other article-sharing websites on the web, such as Digg.com and Reddit.com. In particular, we treat discussions, articles, and events very similarly. However, we did want to make the interface simpler. Thus, there is only two types of actual pages. The first is the “View Topic” mode, which contains links to articles, events, and discussions. These are ordered by most-recently posted. The only exception is the “What’s Hot” topic, which is ordered by how many people have liked the topic. Users may navigate through topics, view the posts, and like/dislike the posts. The other type of page is the “Discussion” mode. Every Article, Event, and Discussion has this mode, and it is where users may discuss the current post. A user may either post a new comment, reply to another comment, or delete one of their old comments.
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