# Discourse index

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-index/52759
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** discourse-hub
**Created:** [11월 10, 2016, 1:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-index/52759 "2016-11-10T13:11:55Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [11월 11, 2016, 1:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-index/52759/8 "2016-11-11T13:55:13Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> Do we want to display forums with only 3 users and 5 topics a month?

Nope, there should be a cap. Any site still gets to opt in but getting featured is not guaranteed.

> [@sam](#):
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> What happens with racist,hate speech and other types of forums that we are uncomfortable promoting? Who decides?

Our index, our rules; we decide.

> [@sam](#):
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> Do forums we host get a bump in the list?

Don’t see why they should. I do however think we should have a concept of “Highlighted Communities” which get prime real estate, e.g. as illustrated in one of @rewphus’ mockups:

 ![screenshot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/8/2/982f298f51cf92b6b81fc963fc2ea047fe9e7f70.png)

We’d highlight sites that are good examples of something, e.g. good design, good community culture, good stewardship of a forum at scale etc.

> [@sam](#):
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> Do larger more active forums get a bump?

Nah, not in any way other than potentially getting highlighted.

> [@sam](#):
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> Another problem is how we deal with taxonomy here, clearly there are families of forums so browsing by category etc would make sense

I’m sure we can come up with 10-20 tags that will be generally applicable to the majority of Discourse forums. Here’s my suggested approach:

- Every site gets to choose between a maximum of 3 tags
- One of those tags will be “other”. When that is one of the selected tags we could show (I’m assuming this interface is in /admin somewhere) a small notice like:

> Can’t find a fitting tag? Feel free to mail your suggestion to [directory@discourse.org](mailto:directory@discourse.org)

In other words we’d automate only what we have to. Display would work [like on the Middleman Directory](https://directory.middlemanapp.com/#/extensions/assets):

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/f/2f540c13eb93b529698d8f942c19ec2e9ae74a61.png)

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I’m all 😍 about this. I’ve been wanting a more exhaustive overview of our many [“partners”](http://blog.discourse.org/category/partners/) for quite some time. “What are some good example Discourse sites?” is also a very frequent question here in the community.

This is jumping ahead a little bit, but I just wanna clear up real quick:

> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> MVP **app** would have

Do you have some tech in mind already? Some sort of lightweight single-page application?

Just wanted to point out that at least the v1 of this sounded like something like Jekyll + [jekyll-get](https://github.com/18F/jekyll-get) could handle with ease, but

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