[RFC] Featured Extension

[PhillippOhlandt]

I thnk it would be nice if we can feature (or let feature via cronjob and random picking) extensions on a daily basis. Right now the Store homepage doesn't change much and many extensions are never really seen by people. I already tried to solve that with my approach of defining extension collections but having a daily featured extension on the homepage would help a bit more I think.

[GwendolenLynch]

Sure … do we just randomly feature one, or do we curate a list?

[PhillippOhlandt]

I would randomly pick one via cronjob every day. That way it's fair for everyone. We could also think about a blacklist for old, buggy or unmaintained extensions.

[GwendolenLynch]

We could also think about a blacklist for old, buggy or unmaintained extensions.

Yeah, that is my concern with "random"

[PhillippOhlandt]

Yeah, get the point. A blacklist is much better than a whitelist IMO. A whitelist needs much more maintenance.

[SvanteRichter]

IMO there is no point to have a "featured" feature if it's going to be random...

[GwendolenLynch]

Yeah, it does somewhat dilute the definition … and I am with you there. It also goes to my concerns about promoting "questionable" extensions.

[PhillippOhlandt]

Then we need to find a better solution to the problem that the homepage always shows the same extensions and themes.

[PhillippOhlandt]

The problem I see when someone picks the featured extension is that the person could be biased and will never pick an extension that he/she doesn't like/use/whatever. This assumption could also include me.

[GwendolenLynch]

Sure… but if someone had the job of curating that list, they could create a short list for the upcoming week and discuss with others in the community… literally in #general

[PhillippOhlandt]

hmm, true, true.

[GwendolenLynch]

Thinking further about this idea, if we found an enthusiastic and outgoing type of person, they could really make an "event" out of it each week, even do things like let people know ahead of time that their extension is a candidate and see if they can recruit some voting support

… sure it would produce a slightly skewed result, but that deviation would likely be the end result of greater community engagement. A good thing 😄

[PhillippOhlandt]

So more something like an "Extension of The Week" thingy where people have to vote the week before? Sounds interesting.

[GwendolenLynch]

Yeah, that sort of thing I guess… a larger part of my point is develop it into something that a community member feels like that have as "their thing" and guide them constructively in founding it, as see where it goes.

…and as @SahAssar said in Slack:

one way of keeping people invested in bolt is to give them responsibility

[PhillippOhlandt]

When we have such an "Extensions of the Week" feature, we should implement it somewhere in the Bolt backend. Either Dashboard or Extend page.