What should our front page be?

[justinclift]

For the front page, would some form of category browser like this make sense?

    http://www.johnsnowlabs.com/healthcare-turnkey-data-science-operations/#services

Theirs turns out to be non-functional... eg mousing over a category highlights it, but there's nothing happening on mouse click (might be a bug, not sure). For us though, it'd take people to either a curated page of databases belonging to that topic, or maybe a non-curated page of databases that people have tagged with related terms. As per #1.

Hmmm, I'm getting the feeling we might need to experiment a bit and see what actually works decently. :wink:

[justinclift]

There's also the GitHub "Project Showcase" approach, which seems similar:

• https://github.com/showcases
• https://github.com/explore
• https://github.com/trending

[justinclift]

As a counterpoint Gitea doesn't yet seem to have a good concept for their Explore thing either:

• https://try.gitea.io/explore/organizations
• https://try.gitea.io/explore/users
• https://try.gitea.io/explore/repos

They do have a search box though, which is probably a useful thing for us to include regardless.

[justinclift]

This looks interesting for better front page graphs:

    https://github.com/keen/dashboards

It uses Bootstrap, which we already make heavy use of. So it might work ok for us. No idea yet if our use of AngularJS will break it, but it's worth looking at when we get back to addressing the front page.