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Redundant "Posts" heading on every community in the dashboard
There is a dashboard available from the top right of the screen:
This shows the categories for each Codidact community, along with an indicator for any categories that have new activity:
However, it also contains a grey bar saying "Posts" at the top of each category list. It is not interactive (doesn't link anywhere else) and doesn't appear to be needed. Is this redundant? Would it be just as intuitive with that bar omitted? This is what it would look like:
This might be even more useful on mobile where there is only room for a single column, and saving the vertical space allows more information to fit on the screen:
Now 2 additional categories fit on the screen, and I personally find it less cluttered.
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There are some additional sections visible only to admins and/or global moderators, which is why the heading exists at all. But you're right: for the vast majority of people, that's the only visible section, so the heading looks odd.
I think the solution would be either to only show that heading if another section is also visible or, if that complicates the code too much, omit that heading everywhere. To someone who can see more sections it will be a list of categories followed by another heading and more stuff, but that seems fine to me -- "posts" can be implicit and doesn't require its own heading.
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