Experiments with discoverability

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.

If you have requests or ideas, send them my way :sunflower::nut_and_bolt:

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Great initiative! Looking forward to some experimentation over the next few weeks and see how things evolve :seedling:

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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.

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:no_entry_sign: mmm, no, scratch that. That doesn’t work as I imagined. Instead I will move the most active links to References, that might work better.

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@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?

Something like:

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.

We can try.
How do I enable it?

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We would have to develop the interface ourselves, but hopefully we can use this feature behind the scenes.