Feedback on sc updates

Russell · May 15, 2015, 2:27am

Continuing the discussion from SuttaCentral: now with added goodness!:

We’ve just rolled out an updated version of the main SC site, which mainly affect the site header. Most of the changes are subtle, and are things that refine the previous design, so you might not notice much. But underneath there’s a lot of new code and care, and it brings the site closer to our aims when releasing the previous version.

The most important innovation is that we now automatically pull discussions for here on Discourse over to the relevant sutta on SC. Try it out. Go to, say DN16. Open up the sidebar and you’ll see a big green button saying “Discuss & Discover”. Click it, and there’s a bunch of topics on Discourse that mention that sutta. The code behind this is still evolving, so don’t expect perfection just yet. But this is a huge innovation, and one of the main aims I had in setting up Discourse. As the site grows, it will mean that anyone who reads the suttas can easily find a community and learning tools. Too often I’ve heard that people would like to read the suttas, but it’s hard, and they don’t understand things, and they don’t know where to learn more. I hope that this will go some way to addressing this.

Other changes we have made include:

Refactoring the header code. It’s now more logical, and should perform better across different devices.

Improve the animations

Shift the sidebar button to the header.

Add a one-time notification to draw attention to the sidebar.

Overall improve the mobile experience.

If you notice any bugs, please let us know.

Dear Bhante,

Just tested it and it works

with reverence, respect, and gratitude,
russ

Robert_Grosch · May 15, 2015, 11:24am

Dear Russell, dear Bhante, dear all,

I just tried the same for some of the recources I had added, just to see if it worked as intended. However, the AV and Essay resources I had added a couple of days ago, e.g. for MN10, do not show up, when I click on ‘Discuss & Discover’.

However, when I go to the DN Suttas for which you had added resources, it works fine as Russell reports.

Am I doing something wrong? I tried to format the “Topics” under “AV” and “Essay” categories according to your examples… Or should I just wait a bit longer, for the information to come through…

With much mettā,
Robert

Robert_Grosch · May 19, 2015, 4:49pm

Dear all,

ok, it seems to work now!

With much mettā,
Robert

Russell · May 21, 2015, 2:02am

Dear Bhante, dear Robert and all,

I was reading over a sutta today and I noticed what Robert mentioned. I then reopened the sutta and realized that there is no related topic to that sutta yet.

Excellent work to Bhante and the SC team for the upgrades

with añjali and mettā,
russ