import type Shepherd from "shepherd.js"; import { addDatasetCounter, encapsulateElements, removeAllDatasetCounters, renderInContainer, } from "../utilities.js"; const step01 = renderInContainer( <>

The Homepage

If you plan on staying a while, this is likely the place you'll see the most. So let's work our way top to bottom, left to right.

Starting with...

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The Main Header

On the left there is the Tildes logo and title, which you can click to get back to the homepage, or refresh it if you're already there. If you are in a group, the group name will also be shown next to it.

On the right is the notifications section and your username. When you have unread messages and/or are mentioned, they will show up next to the left of it. If you don't have any notifications right now, you can{" "} click here {" "} to toggle a preview of what they look like.

At the moment mentions only work in comments, so if you get mentioned in a topic's text body and don't get a notification,{" "} that's why .

, ); // Toggle mock notifications, based on the code in the following link. // If the logic for this needs to be updated, also update the permalink to the // actual Tildes HTML code. // https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/blob/0dbb031562cd9297968fec0049af4b833ef77301/tildes/tildes/templates/macros/user.jinja2#L9-20 function toggleMockNotifications(event: Event): void { // Prevent the click from going through so the anchor isn't removed. event.preventDefault(); const root = document.querySelector("#site-header .logged-in-user-info"); /* Generic function to toggle a mock notification. */ function toggle(existingSelector: string, href: string, text: string): void { const existing = root?.querySelector(existingSelector) ?? undefined; if (existing === undefined) { // If no notification exists, render our mock. const messageNotification = document.createElement("a"); const count = 1 + Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10); messageNotification.classList.add("logged-in-user-alert"); messageNotification.dataset.tildesShepherdMock = "true"; messageNotification.href = href; messageNotification.textContent = `${count} ${text}`; root?.insertAdjacentElement("beforeend", messageNotification); } else if (existing.dataset.tildesShepherdMock === "true") { // If a notification exists and it has our mock attribute, remove it. existing.remove(); } else { // A real notification already exists, so we do nothing. } } toggle('[href="/messages/unread"]', "/messages/unread", "new messages"); toggle( '[href="/notifications/unread"]', "/notifications/unread", "new comments", ); } const step03 = renderInContainer( <>

The Listing Options

Right below the main header are the topic listing options. These determine how the topics in the listing are sorted and from what period topics should be shown.

The non-activity sorts are the easiest to explain, so let's start with them:

Then the first Activity sort will sort topics by bumping topics up as they receive comments, however this sort makes use of comment labels.

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If you don't know what comment labels are yet, don't worry, there will be a tour that explains them. But in short they are a community tool to emphasize and de-emphasize comments, similar to votes but with more specific intention. If you'd like to read more, check out{" "} the documentation .

And finally All activity sorts topics the same as Activity, but without taking into account any comment labels.

If you only want to see topics from a certain period, click on the "from" dropdown and select the period you want. Aside from a set of predefined options, you can also set a custom one by clicking the "other period" option, after which you'll be prompted to input it.

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The Topic Listing

Next up, just below the listing options is the topic listing itself. We've only highlighted the first topic here, but you can probably see it continues all the way down the page.

Here, we've marked the main elements of a topic:

  1. The topic title, when the topic is a "text topic" it links to the same place as the comments link does. Otherwise when it's a "link topic", it will link to an external site.
  2. The topic metadata, which by default includes the group it's in. If a topic has specific notable tags and you have the "show tags" setting enabled in your user settings, they will be shown after the group name. A "topic type" may also be shown to indicate whether the topic is a text topic, a video, an "ask" topic for recommendations or a survey, etc.
  3. The amount of comments the topic has received. If any new comments have been posted since you last viewed the topic, in orange a "(X new)" will be added.
  4. The topic source. For text topics this is always the poster of the topic, but for link topics in certain groups it will be the domain name together with that website's icon. For topics automatically posted by Tildes itself, it will say "Scheduled topic".

The list continues on the next page.

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The Topic Listing continued

  1. The date when the topic was posted. For dates that are pretty recent it will show something like "X days ago" while for longer dates it will be the exact date, like "April 26th, 2021".
  2. The voting button, clicking it will add your vote to the topic. On Tildes, once the topic is older than 30 days you can no longer vote on it and the individual voting data for is removed, with only the total count kept. You can read more about it in{" "} this announcement topic .
  3. And finally the topic actions. Clicking on the "Actions" button will show a dropdown including "Bookmark", "Ignore this topic" and if you have been granted the permission for it, "Edit title". Ignoring the topic will remove it from the topic listing and prevent any future notifications from happening. Both your bookmarked and ignored topics can be found in their respective sections on your profile.
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The Sidebar

Let's take a look at the sidebar, where the first thing we're greeted with is the search bar.

A quick note for mobile devices, the sidebar is opened via a "Sidebar" button that appears in the very top-right of the page.

When searching from the homepage, topics will be included from any group. However, searching when inside a group will only include topics from that group and any of its sub-groups.

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Below the search bar you will also find the title of the page, or name of the group, and a small description. The sidebar has more elements when in you're in a group page, but those will be touched upon in the groups tour.

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The Sidebar: Subscriptions

Moving on, you'll find the list of groups you are subscribed to and a button below it to go to the groups listing, where you can find all the that are available.

To post a topic, subscribe or unsubscribe from any group, go to the group page in question and in its sidebar there will be buttons to do all those things.

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The Sidebar: User Settings

At the bottom of the sidebar you will find some user settings. Specifically the filtered topics tags you have set and a link to the settings page.

When you have filtered topics tags set, topics with any of the tags present will be removed from your listing. You can read more about it by going to the dedicated page for it by clicking the{" "} "Edit filtered tags" {" "} button.

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The Footer

And finally, the very last part of the homepage is the footer. Here you will find a theme selector (more on that in a moment) and various links to places, such as the Tildes Documentation, Contact page, the source code, etc. We highly recommend reading through the documentation as it explains a lot of the how and why Tildes does certain things.

As for the theme selector, you can change your theme with a number of options. When you change it here, it will only change for the current device, if you'd like to set an account default for all devices, head to{" "} your account settings .

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This is the end, beautiful friend

And that's the end of the Homepage tour!

As always, if you find any bugs, have feature requests or simply want to ask a question. Please send us a message at{" "} @Community .

Happy Tildying!~

, ); export const steps: Shepherd.Step.StepOptions[] = [ { id: "homepage-01", text: step01, }, { attachTo: { element: "#site-header", on: "bottom", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-02", scrollTo: true, text: step02, }, { attachTo: { element: "main > .listing-options", on: "bottom", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-03", text: step03, }, { attachTo: { element: ".topic-listing > li:first-child", on: "bottom", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-04", text: step04, }, { attachTo: { element: ".topic-listing > li:first-child", on: "bottom", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-05", text: step05, }, { attachTo: { element: '#sidebar [data-tildes-shepherd-encapsulated="homepage-06"]', on: "left-start", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-06", text: step06, }, { attachTo: { element: '#sidebar [data-tildes-shepherd-encapsulated="homepage-07"]', on: "left-start", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-07", scrollTo: true, text: step07, }, { attachTo: { element: "#sidebar .divider + .nav", on: "left-start", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-08", scrollTo: true, text: step08, }, { attachTo: { element: "#site-footer", on: "top", }, canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-09", scrollTo: true, text: step09, }, { canClickTarget: false, id: "homepage-10", text: step10, }, ]; export const eventHandlers: TourStepEventHandler[] = [ [ "homepage-04", [ "show", () => { const topic = ".topic-listing > li:first-child"; const counters = [ ".topic-title", ".topic-metadata", ".topic-info-comments", ".topic-info-source", "time", ".topic-voting", ".topic-actions", ]; for (const [count, selector] of counters.entries()) { addDatasetCounter(`${topic} ${selector}`, count + 1); } }, ], ], [ "homepage-05", [ "destroy", () => { removeAllDatasetCounters(); }, ], ], [ "homepage-05", [ "show", () => { encapsulateElements( "homepage-06", "#sidebar .sidebar-controls", "afterend", ["#sidebar .form-search", "#sidebar h2", "#sidebar p"], ); }, ], ], [ "homepage-06", [ "show", () => { encapsulateElements("homepage-07", "#sidebar .divider", "beforebegin", [ "#sidebar .nav", '#sidebar [href="/groups"', ]); }, ], ], [ "homepage-08", [ "show", () => { const filteredTags = document.querySelector("#sidebar details") ?? undefined; if (filteredTags === undefined) { console.warn("Element is unexpectedly undefined"); return; } filteredTags.open = true; }, ], ], ];