I love Shopify’s new community redesign. Is there a way to do a leaderboard on the home page similar to theirs?
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The discussion revolves around adding a leaderboard to the home page of a Discourse forum, inspired by Shopify’s community redesign. adalo_jesse initiates the conversation, noting the lack of an easy way to implement such features. awesomerobot confirms it’s possible via theme customization but acknowledges the absence of a dedicated component. hequaye also expresses interest in a similar layout with banners and categories. adalo_jesse suggests Discourse should adopt no-code principles to improve accessibility. osioke reassures the community that the feature is under consideration. Finally, meghna announces the release of a new component for adding a leaderboard, linking to the official Discourse post: Discourse Top Contributors Sidebar.
It’s definitely possible to pull in leaderboard information in a theme from /u, we don’t have a Customization > Theme component available that does it… but it seems like a fairly common feature, so we should consider building one.
I love the shopify community layout… is there any way to get that kind of banner blocking??? where we can have a banner on top and then categories or latest posts followed by another set banner like announcements?
I’m sure someone could build it, but that’s one of the unfortunate things about Discourse. There is no easy way to make design changes. I think they should adopt no-code principles and democratize their development to be more inclusive. I work at Adalo, so I may be biased. But I do think it would propel Discourse past the competition.
Just to let everyone know that we are still looking at this!
We now have a component for adding leaderboard: