Changing the front page

[Matthew Brown]

I have been looking at maybe changing the front page of Author Buzz to be the activity stream and moving the blog posts to a secondary page.

What do you think? Would this make Author Buzz more social and promote everyone’s blogs more evenly?

 

[jeffjohns]

Try it. What is the worst that can happen? You have to change it back. That does not seem so bad.

[Jason Latnar]

I’m not sure. I like things the way they are. I know my way around the site. If it aint broke don’t fix it?

[Matthew Brown]

That is exactly what I have been thinking. One the one hand why fix what is not broken but on the other hand, the front page gives too much focus to what I write and not enough to what you all create.

[jeffjohns]

How is this going?

[Kent Index]

I’m all for A/B testing…

[Matthew Brown]

So, yeah, update on that front. It seems like what I wanted to do was massively more complicated than I imagined. So much so, in fact, that creating a custom theme from the ground up is actually easier. Before Christmas, I hope to have that done.

No promises though. This is a big job and I want to get it right.

[Matthew Brown]

Had a brainwave today. In one long burst of coding and testing, I solved the last remaining problems and made the change.

I’m not promising things will stay exactly like that. I may need to make further changes to speed up loading times but now the front page is about everyone, not just us.

[Burty Burtman]

Should I take it you are sticking with this look?

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