make suggestions on homepage dynamic

[chadwhitacre]

Need more velocity for this to make sense.

We should only list people on the homepage who have claimed their account. That will mean they've opted in to the system as a participant.

[chadwhitacre]

We now have enough velocity for this. Implement this after tomorrow and before next Friday.

[jtauber]

what's the planned algorithm for this? just the most popular? (all time? recent?) completely random? weighted random?

[chadwhitacre]

Well, on #7 we talked about only including people who filled out a statement ("I am making the world better by ..."). We also talked about collecting "Thank you!"s, but I'm not going to wait for that.

I guess I would envision a "most popular" listing of three or so that links to the leaderboard, and then a "featured participant" that is random or weighted random from those with a statement, that would further link to whatever we come up with to address #20.

[chadwhitacre]

What would you suggest, @jtauber? :-)

[jtauber]

Weighted random isn't hard to do:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/3679747/112855

although top 3 + random featured works for me too

[chadwhitacre]

Velocity is a function of backed tips, so we now need to recover from #58 before implementing this. Bumping a week.

[chadwhitacre]

Decided to add @fabpot and @taylorotwell to give the PHP community a connection on the homepage while word is spreading on Twitter. Permission granted here and here.

This makes me think we should have a "trending" feature on the homepage. Not sure yet if that's a new ticket.

[chadwhitacre]

Going to ride this out another week since I just added @fabpot and @taylorotwell. Will land this before next week, I promise. :-)