Feature #4980
openCAC Featured Content -- Adding Randomization
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Description
I'm using the CAC Featured Content Plugin on NYCDH (nycdh.org), which reminded me that when one chooses a featured member or group, the selection is not randomized -- one has to enter a specific member/group. It would be much better to have the groups/members randomized. Can you please let me know how much development would be involved in adding that feature?
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 10 years ago
Yes, it's possible to randomize, though there's a lot packed into the idea of "random" featured items. Some questions to ponder:
- Does it make sense to "feature" a group or member that has not been active in a long time, or one with very little content?
- How can we be confident that users want to have their faces on the home page?
- Does randomness always happen within a content type - you select "groups" and then get a random group - or do we roll two dice, one for object type and one for the specific object? Is this a setting?
- Are randomized selections random per pageload? Or per time period?
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 10 years ago
- Category name set to Home Page
- Target version set to Future release
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 9 years ago
Related: #2130
Matt, can you say more about the randomness you're looking for here?
Updated by Matt Gold almost 9 years ago
It would be neat to give a certain set of blogs, groups, and people a "featured" status which would mean they could be part of the set of features/groups/users from which a randomized selection could be made. though maybe that would require https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2130#change-28949