# Alternate home page 'digest' layout

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternate-home-page-digest-layout/33854>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** rfc, activity-summary\
**Created:** [2015年九月28日 20:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternate-home-page-digest-layout/33854 "2015-09-28T20:31:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [2015年九月29日 17:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternate-home-page-digest-layout/33854/9 "2015-09-29T17:05:56Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> can you post screenshots of the source sites that are inspiring the design choices here?

The Google News layout is the closest analog, so I’ll just include that one. The treatment of information from left to right is the big idea: (1) top-level overview of content via hierarchical category listing; (2) main content digestified to surface skimmable contents of posts; (3) widgets that provide shortcuts to interesting content, generated based on the user’s history on the site.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/2/e23990f4e3ae2d61bcf732838a9fe6adc7221f96.png)

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> [@sam](#):
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> Can you expand on how you expect this to work when you drill down to a category? Does it filter down the view or take you to a new spot?

Good question… I was hoping noone would ask. I guess the options are:

- Open the category page (as it is currently designed)
- If there’s enough content, reload the digest view filtered for that category. This might mean hiding the third column altogether.

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