When I started thinking about rewriting Steemit's front end and producing a Proof of Concept, I didn't want to just make it pretty, I wanted to add to it - some extra features that steemit.com doesn't have.
So over the weekend, I worked on a feature that I thought could work quite well within a community page - A Tag Cloud.
Below is an example where the right hand column (currently) lists all of the tags that have been used within the World of Xpilar posts. In this case, I have selected the "club100" tag which has filtered all of the posts within World Of Xpilar that have used this tag.
I've currently got it set so that all of the tags are listed and as a bit of fun, can you guess what the most used tag within World of Xpilar is?
In addition to this, I've also tidied up the area where the posts are displayed - I currently loop through 5 posts at a time to display the alternating 2 and 3 column layout but this meant that if there were fewer than 5 posts, then you'd get some blank blocks and missing images. So I fixed this and introduced a nice, new design when there are 4 posts remaining.
I'm quite excited by this and am pleased with how things are coming together 🙂
I'm not sure where I'll go next with this - it's tempting to create a "blog" page displaying a user's content but I think I'll keep going further with what I've got first. I need an update to the API so that I can identify pinned posts and also need to include some "post stats" - things like number of comments, upvotes, etc. and community information. Plenty to do - fortunately, I've not come across any major stumbling blocks to slow me down yet.