Swag-for-dev: New Page Idea: devswag.io/hacktoberfest

[swapagarwal]

There are quite a lot of interesting hacktoberfest swag opportunities this year! I was thinking of having a quick way to access them.
What do you guys think of having a new page /hacktoberfest specifically for this purpose?

[aslafy-z]

I think it would be great. We will have to add labels to the swags to do so, right ?

[Jacob8765]

Would they still be visible on the main page, or would they only be accessible from the hacktoberfest page?

[plibither8]

It's a great idea, but, how are we going to _advertise_ it? Since this is a limited-time page, would the amount a traffic visiting that /hacktoberfest vs traffic visiting the main page be worth it? Just wondering

[zac-garby]

Would they still be visible on the main page, or would they only be accessible from the hacktoberfest page?

They should definitely be visible on both pages.

[swapagarwal]

@aslafy-z Yes, we would need to add labels for this.
@Jacob8765 @zac-garby Everything would be visible on main page; filtered swag on hacktoberfest page for quick access. (Same can be achieved by adding a show only hacktoberfest opportunities checkbox on the main page but having a new page makes sharing easier.)
@plibither8 A button can be shown on main page linking to the hacktoberfest page. (Just thinking out loud here)

[plibither8]

Yes, we would need to add labels for this.

I'm guessing labels in the data.json file, right? It would allow us to sort more efficiently that way. Maybe something like hacktoberfest: true

[Jacob8765]

Maybe instead of adding a new page, it would be easier to use a URL query - something like devswag.io?filter=hacktoberfest.

[darshkpatel]

IMHO We can just have a hacktoberfest filter on the main page.

Also can have something like devswag.io/filter=hacktoberfest , in case we
need a sharable link

On Wed 3 Oct, 2018, 11:28 PM Zac Garby, [e-mail] wrote:

Would they still be visible on the main page, or would they only be
accessible from the hacktoberfest page?

They should definitely be visible on both pages.

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[swapagarwal]

@Jacob8765 @darshkpatel Makes sense.

[plibither8]

Should I start work on this?

[aslafy-z]

@plibither8 I think it would be better to add something like

labels: ['hacktoberfest'],

To the data.json file as we could have other categories in the future

[plibither8]

That's a good idea, I'll initialise all swag items with an empty labels array, except the hacktoberfest ones

[swapagarwal]

Sure, go ahead!
How about using tags instead of labels?

[Jacob8765]

I can probably help implement this if you want

[plibither8]

@Jacob8765 @aslafy-z @swapagarwal I've just created the PR. Suggestions?

[swapagarwal]

This functionality is now live at https://devswag.io/?tags=hacktoberfest
Cheers! 🎉