Peertube: More interesting homepage

[andzdroid]

I'd like the homepage to be a distinct page from the Trending/Recent/Local pages, which are just a plain grid of videos.

Using youtube as an example, they show a small selection of trending videos, a small selection of recent videos, videos from your subscriptions, recommended videos based on your view history, etc.

This makes the homepage unique for logged-in users, and gives a better idea of what's on this site for new users.

[rigelk]

Related to #757 - just to keep track of things :)

[Chocobozzz]

I would like to create an interesting homepage, in which we would list latest videos, some interesting categories or tag etc. But I would need some help on the design:

• Do we do something like youtube with different sections: https://www.youtube.com/
• Or like d.tube/dailymotion with lines we can browse: https://d.tube/ https://www.dailymotion.com
• ...?

[andzdroid]

We don't use arrows for scrolling anywhere else in peertube, so I prefer the youtube grid look because it's more consistent with the existing design.

[bradsk88]

I did some thinking about recommendations last night. I'm new to the PeerTube system and it's just a first draft, want to throw it out there just in case someone else is also actively investigating this concept:

https://github.com/bradsk88/peertube-recommendations/wiki

[mattcoxonline]

[Chocobozzz]

Implemented: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/commit/2d3741d6d92e9bd1f41694c7442a6d1da434e1f2 (PR: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/986)

It's just a first version, so don't hesitate to create other issues if you have interesting ideas :)

(Just for information, I linked the @bradsk88 and @mattcoxonline comments in their appropriate issues)