Rocket.chat: Create Home/Discovery

[carolsilveira]

[timkinnane]

Hey, if anyone owning this has made progress or even a spec for this, please post updates. I'd be interested to contribute.

[caioogata]

hey @timkinnane thanks for your interest.
This task is in our backlog yet.

But if you like to suggest some ideas, drafts or design, please fell free for it.
Just post here the evolution for our debate.

Thanks.

[timkinnane]

Great, my team has been speccing concepts for something similar, our content would be something like:

• App store links for device versions
• Links to DM key bots or users (like pinning for users instead of messages)
• Feature public rooms, e.g. by activity or latest added (could be manual or algorithmic)
• User tips / link to quick start guides

Some discovery content may be specific to our communities (building residents). So I'll be interested to see how the management of that content is being planned. Will there be options for dynamic / instance specific config, etc?

Re design, here's an example from the Curse app (now Twitch).

[engelgabriel]

[timkinnane]

That's really cool @engelgabriel!

Would that be the new index/home? Or how would it be exposed?

I'd suggest making this available and consistent with the /directory tabs (Channels and Users). Because at the moment there's no way back to home, once you've gone into channels.

e.g.

• Make that view the initial tab in Directory, so the tabs would be Discover | Channels | Users
• Then make /home render the Directory instead of the current generic text blob.

I think the discover page should also link to the native apps. They're a priority onboarding resource.
Possibly the rocket.chat/docs/user-guides/ too.

You could follow the tile format, with a tile for each onboarding component, above or below the community channels... e.g:

• Welcome : Custom welcome text.
• Guides : Links to docs.
• Apps : Link to Google Play / App Store

???