# Plugin/web app idea: Featured timeline or broad strokes changelog

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-web-app-idea-featured-timeline-or-broad-strokes-changelog/36388
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015年十二月7日 14:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-web-app-idea-featured-timeline-or-broad-strokes-changelog/36388 "2015-12-07T14:51:39Z")
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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: [2015年十二月7日 14:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-web-app-idea-featured-timeline-or-broad-strokes-changelog/36388/1 "2015-12-07T14:51:39Z")

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I bumped into this today: [http://changelog.nomadlist.com/](http://changelog.nomadlist.com/)

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/4/545d5230043a3c22f712a615842c27fd35b3e130.png)

Another example from a WordPress plugin:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/9/59635a84ff7e1448d02af3d5313f0c2b11fdb7e1.jpg)

Others:

- [https://headwayapp.co/](https://headwayapp.co/) (I like the widget)
- [https://productmap.co/](https://productmap.co/)

As far as software developers are concerned it’s not so much a changelog as it is a _timeline of noteworthy feature additions_, but whatever you call it, it’s pretty neat!

The basic idea is that you’d have a category or a tag dedicated to topics that cover a feature release. From there, I can think of many ways in which this could be implemented:

- **Feed content to a static site generator**  
Probably the most cost-effective method. Could be hosted on GitHub pages, but would still require a script to be run regularly to grab the content.

- **Pull in and display content in a single-page application**  
Could still be done very cheaply through a [service like Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/11/24/a-step-by-step-guide-ember-on-netlify) for instance.

- **Plugin that creates a custom index page for Discourse**  
This might stand a chance of being put to use here on Meta (e.g. [meta.discourse.org/changelog](http://meta.discourse.org/changelog)), but it’s probably also the hardest one to do. Requires handlebars magic.

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [2025年十二月4日 11:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-web-app-idea-featured-timeline-or-broad-strokes-changelog/36388/2 "2025-12-04T11:37:10Z")

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