# List of project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/list-of-project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2016/38791
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 31, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/list-of-project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2016/38791 "2016-01-31T11:47:51Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/list-of-project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2016/38791/13 "2016-02-13T11:34:39Z")

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Recently, I’ve been thinking about ways to make the topic list page more relevant to particular users on forums with a wide array of activity.

One topic on the subject is here:

> [@Facebook-like Newsfeed tab (As a means to better mix topics from high-volume and low-volume categories)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-like-newsfeed-tab-as-a-means-to-better-mix-topics-from-high-volume-and-low-volume-categories/38789):
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> I was thinking about adding a category on a new forum that could risk being very noisy. The basic idea is similar to what is described here: [Wanted: Discourse Hacker News Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wanted-discourse-hacker-news-plugin/37620) My concern with adding such a category is that it could dominate the latest page if people post too much. But I don’t want to discourage posting anything interesting here. And I’m not sure that I want to completely hide the category from latest, because that could also damage its usefulness. So the first thought tha…

Another approach would be to allow _users_ to customize what tabs appear for topic lists, and what is shown within them (via a search query or a selected list of categories).

For instance, I don’t really need to see the Bugs or Features tabs here on Meta, so I might hide them. Or I might want to create a tab for Ideas which would include #features #Contribute > UX and another one for Issues which would include #Contribute > Bug and #Support. I might also want to add a Following tab that includes topics that are `in:watching or in:tracking`.

(I swear there is a topic exploring this idea, but couldn’t find it…)

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