Originally, I intended to finish up the homepage, leaderboards, and to make changes to the view new posts page this weekend. Only the first partially happened.
If you check out the front page, it's supposed to function as sort of an activity feed for the entire site so that you can get a good feel for what's happening right now. It also condenses all the information that used to be spread out all over the homepage into one area, so it should be easier to browse.
The two main sections are 'Recent' and 'Popular.' Recent is self-explanatory, but popular may not be. Essentially, 'Popular' is kind of like the featured works list, but with two twists. The first twist is that it now covers the entire site (although it can be narrowed specifically to literary works still). The second twist is that it doesn't just count up likes over the past 7 days. Instead, it looks at the time those likes were given. So the newer the like, the more valuable it is.
There's also a third section with the tentative title of 'Not Ready.' That'll be where the Leaderboards go, and it'll be pretty much exactly the same from the old YWS, which in turn was pretty much exactly the same from the old old YWS.
Across the top of the home page, you'll have three blocks. The first block will be the announcement block. The second block, occupying prime position, will be the leaderboard summary block. The third block will be the featured member block.
So there you have it! The homepage will be finished really soon. It would've been already but the 'Popular' column was extraordinarily difficult to code correctly and took me an unholy amount of time to complete.
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