When we opened this forum we didn’t want to add to the noise and attention grabbing of social networks, so we hid the posts behind a simple front page that only shows categories of topics.
I think @Fred’s MEV letter does an amazing job, it is a kindly curated guide to prioritize what to read every week, so I want to move it at the top of the front page. That will free us to highlight some other content that is either recent or important. I will be experimenting with this for some weeks.
As suggested by @jonathan, I’ve muted the References because I post a lot on that one and it would obscure the other topics.
I’m also going to mute the links tag. For this to work, @Fred please stop using this tag in the mev letter, otherwise the pin won’t work to highlight it.
@guayabyte, what do you think of rearranging the landing page so that the categories become checkboxes with which the user can filter the Latest topics?
So instead of us deciding which categories (e.g References) to hide from the landing page, we allow the user to make this decision themselves? I think it’d be a very intuitive and efficient UX.
@guayabyte are you still experimenting with the forum UX?
The new landing page bothers me a bit. It shows both Categories and Latest, but feels unoptimized for either. As there’s no relationship between the 2 columns, they feel disconnected and not the best use of available space.
I think it’s currently a downgrade from just using Latest and using the drop-down menu to explore Categories.
In order to improve think we should do one of the following:
Move the categories to smaller icons you can use as filters (see mockup above)
Connect the two columns and show the latest topics for each category (see mockup below):
mmm, no, scratch that. That doesn’t work as I imagined. Instead I will move the most active 
