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Should we change the dashboard layout?
What is it?
Ordering communities by pairing them into groups of 3 based on quantity of categories.
The communities which could not be paired with similar communities due to varying quantity of categories can sit at the bottom.
*The right part of the above image is not official, it is just for demonstration purposes and made using a simple design program.
Pros
- Makes it look more organized.
- Makes use of unused vertical space, thus shortening the height.
Cons
- Makes it hard for ranking communities to the top if they are more active, if this was how they were sorted before. If they are ordered based on which community was created first, then this downside does not hold much weight.
- There isn't really a major issue with the current layout and they are functional as-is. Therefore, not the best use of developer time.
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Deferred. We would like the community switcher order and the dashboard order to match, and currently we don't have any UI for a user to change that order. When we add a network profile we'll have a logical place to put that UI, and after that happens we can wire up everything to follow the same order (for logged-in users who have changed from the default).
By the way, a while back we did re-order the list at codidact.com, which is a static page that's more outward-facing, to apply some loose clustering and put our more active communities first.
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Let's not. The community order makes little sense as it is now (based on creation date?), but at least it is fixed. It's arbitrary, but you get used to where things are. It would be even worse if things moved around.
Resources would be better spent on a customizable network-wide dashboard per user. Then you could see the communities you cared about in an order relevant to you.
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