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shawn shared some links said Mon, Jun 29th 2015 at 1:39am ET

As discussed over on "Have you ever tried to find something in a thread on Drone.Horse" we changed the homepage of Drone.Horse to a category view.

I took the categories @ruouttaurmind came up with and included his short descriptions as well. I think we need to work on the text a little bit. I also included a category for "polls" as well so we can start meh.com style polls over here as well.

I quickly went through and mapped the old topics into the new categories. I'm happy to move topics into different categories if we think I categorized some wrong.

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ruouttaurmind said Mon, Jun 29th 2015 at 1:53am ET:

@shawn, thank you for your work. I appreciate the time and effort you've spent on this.

Please move "Let's build something" (currently in Miscellaneous) to Tech.

Although it has diversified somewhat, it remains (mostly) the key point of focus for the QAV250 racer builds some of us are working on.

Thanks again for your effort!

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DJMajickMan said Mon, Jun 29th 2015 at 1:27pm ET:

And can we have some way of seeing which posts have updates in the categories list? Hard to tell if I've read all recent posts or not in a thread from the main page. Maybe updated sub-threads.

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- @DJMajickMan sure. what would that look like?
  
  shawn said Mon, Jun 29th 2015 at 1:39pm ET
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- @shawn I'm not sure how much cookie support you put in place, but what about the little baloons with the numbers reflecting the number of new or unread comments in the category?
  
  ruouttaurmind said Mon, Jun 29th 2015 at 3:31pm ET
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DJMajickMan said Mon, Jun 29th 2015 at 2:44pm ET:

Something like this or maybe even have it do line through text for all of the sub threads you've already read everything in.

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shawn said Mon, Jun 29th 2015 at 9:52pm ET:
Few small improvements today.
- Removed the "Polls" category. We can bring that back if we think of some polls to run.
- Added an "All Categories" category as the first category.
- Cleaned up the category descriptions a bit. They now fit all in one line which makes the category view on the homepage a nice grid.
- Ran with @DJMajickMan's idea for read/unread status and grayed out any topics where you've read all the comments/replies. This is similar to what we do on the https://drone.horse/forum list already so it should feel natural.
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- @shawn Awesome, no way of knowing about unread comments was my main complaint until I discovered category views today. Now I can still be lazy and look at the main page!
  
  djslack said Tue, Jun 30th 2015 at 12:31am ET
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editorkid said Wed, Jul 1st 2015 at 12:19am ET:

Whoohoo! A step closer to pagination!

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- @editorkid haha. better slow your roll.
  
  snapster said Wed, Jul 1st 2015 at 12:32pm ET
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- @snapster But now that it's been announced...
  
  editorkid said Sun, Jul 19th 2015 at 12:12am ET
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