Community homepage: "Inside PostHog" newspaper

[corywatilo]

Until now we haven't quite nailed the community homepage experience. This newspaper-style view aggregates content from all the Community subpages and brings the latest into a single page. You'd access this by clicking Community in the nav and it would live at /community.

Some notes below...

• Social content sourced from Slack
  • We can resurrect our Slack post importer which can take threads posted on Slack and turn them into community posts.
  • In the community forum, we'd create forum topics (with similar names to our fun channels like #whereintheworld, #devrel-random and perhaps even something industry or YC-related) so our community can post to them as well.
  • But since our team is unlikely to share directly to our community (vs in Slack), we can selectively choose which threads to post publicly to seed the new categories.
• Some content would need to be manually refreshed weekly/bi-weekly (we can task this to Ops) like Meet a team member, A musing from the CEO (which is just a Tweet I pulled)
• Other content can be updated automatically (team member anniversaries, new hires)
• I want to replace the Substack signup form with our own (more customization) and we can autofill the email input with a signed in user's email
• There's a slot for a comic, if we want to go that far
• The crossword ideas is based off using this open source package. I didn't really finish designing this part, but we can easily copy UIs from major news publications who use this exact package already.

[andyvan-ph]

I like this direction. Some random assorted thoughts:

• I feel like stuff in our Slack is very interesting to us, but not at all interesting to passers by. Would rather see that space show changelog updates / WIP updates on what we're working on etc.

• Would this be a good place for some kind of community leaderboard using the points system thingy?

• I like the comic idea. Would be a fun little regular project we could update once a month. Less keen on crossword, but don't feel strongly.

[jtemperton]

I really like the concept. +1 to @andyvan-ph's points re: going for changelog or similar over Slack updates.

If we're going for a newspaper look and feel it might he fun to play around with having a proper name and flag rather than 'Inside Posthog' in small text.

Might also be fun/cute to ape some other small design elements – a clearer P1/main headline, for example and bylines/headshots as you've currently got under WIP, a little graphic showing the local weather???

Using the 'posts' section right in the middle to get the newsletter front and center would be great. I don't know if we'd want to just have newsletter articles shown there and surface blogs/over content elsewhere?

[joethreepwood]

Love this direction, but def +1 to changelog over Slack updates.