Create "Latest Posts" link & thread

[sssoz]

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[JosephMcArthur]

At some point, it would be interesting to discuss adding a 'latest' element to the homepage somehow. I feel like that would be helpful.

[JosephMcArthur]

I got the urge to try this today... so here we are: https://infrastructure.sparcopen.org/latest. The homepage has an element for it now too.

It could be better designed, but this was quick and easy.

• We might want a separate element, as this isn't really a 'topic', that makes this more obvious to folks who're looking for it. Also, presumable, at some point we'll really want to highlight something new and make sure people see it. This won't fix that.

I think we should keep the homepage just manually updatable for this element.

• Also, in the 'latest' there is a good chance we'll want to make sure some things don't show up, e.g the latest and report acknowledgements. It doesn't make sense in that context. Some front matter that sets this per post makes sense to me.

[sssoz]

Time estimate: 0.5 days

• Finish the last few tasks mentioned here
• Clean up the page: add or remove metadata
• Page-specific styling? Do we want this to look like a regular thread?
• Does not include adding pagination

[sssoz]

• We might want a separate element, as this isn't really a 'topic', that makes this more obvious to folks who're looking for it. Also, presumable, at some point we'll really want to highlight something new and make sure people see it. This won't fix that.

I think this is something that should be solved in how we present new content in the homepage. People shouldn’t have to click twice to get the latest post -- it should be displayed as soon as they land on the site.

[JosephMcArthur]

I'm moving this out of this milestone. I'd prefer we spent time on the homepage, and many of the above issues are solved by a better homepage.

Also, given the relatively evergreen nature of our content, at some point 'latest' is not all that interesting and since we already have 100's of ways to explore the content polishing a low priority one is not key.

That said, having it available for an occasional link, or for us behind the scenes is not bad thing, so no reason to retire it completely.