Live updates channel / Recent Updates site section

[cathoderaydude]

There was a request in suggestion box to crosspost updates (releases, downloads, products) to a channel on discord. I believe msorri is implementing that.

As a secondary idea and a way to help onboard new visitors, perhaps we can get a What's New on the front page? This is a quick way to save people from just wading into the stacks.

[cathoderaydude]

msorri has proof of concepted the discord feature, it's just a simple webhook so we can integrate it into the actual SA routes as async web requests.

[NattyNarwhal]

FWIW old site had this.

I think it's doable to show new downloads on the front page, though I think I'd want to avoid specialization - perhaps we can add something like MW parser functions on so we don't have to hardcode or rely on client-side JS. (Then again, we already do for the Twitter feed...) Such a construct could also be used to handle the OS page in the library 🤔 .

[cathoderaydude]

I have started implementing this as a custom route which looks identical to the current front page plus this new section. If we can figure out how to do any of this parser stuff I'm all for it but I'm gonna get this done first.

[NattyNarwhal]

FWIW, looking at the schema a while back, I did remember there's Downloads.NoShowOnHome, if that helps.