Continuing the discussion from Site Setup Thread…
We have a fancy new layout for the site’s home page! A new, friendlier interface will show instead of the Latest page (which can be accessed through the new “All Topics” link if required). This places a greater focus on the actual topic categories which makes the site much more polished, compared to just having everything bundled together in one list. The Latest page can now be thought of more as an index/dump of everything on this site chronologically, while the actual categories are the best way to find where things are posted.
I have also finished building the awesome Stripdown Mode which will allow us to streamline the site before major events take place. This drops the site back to the older layout temporarily, but with a streamlined Latest page containing only three or four relevant topic threads at a maximum. Everything not related to the highlighted event is temporarily tucked away in Stripdown Mode, but can still be accessed if desired through the links in this topic.
There are also some backend updates/rebuilds that have been done too.
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Category Moderators can now be assigned properly. This means that accounts such as @Events can be utilised to manage sections of the site such as the
Events category. If anyone wants their own category to post stuff I can happily make a personal category for you and give you a mod tag for that specific section. -
Discourse Math, Discourse Calendar and Discourse Reactions are now included as part of the standard Docker build. The build modifiers should not be pulling any GitHub links related to these plugins as this is obsolete and will break the site!
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It is now possible to suppress tags and categories from the “Latest” page, thanks to a wonderful modified plugin from [todo get their GitHub link]. This is a fundamental building block for Stripdown Mode to work as intended.
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Added working banners thanks to some component snap-ins. I am working on getting some further customisation done on Landing Pages to make the site’s layout even better.
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The Maths bots are still not daily automated, and it’s very difficult to scrape problems without a proper API. CORS errors are shooting me in the face at every possible opportunity here but I’m seeing if there’s a way round it, or another way to scrape problems directly using some sort of proxy.
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Site management will ensure that important posts, such as the one regarding the site’s file storage limits - are accessible and easily distinguished. All posts by the system admin can be seen at this link.