Primary goal: Make it easier for Manifold to curate markets, articles, and other media relevant to breaking news to display on the homepage.

Secondary goal: Allow all users to create and share custom dashboards of markets + relevant media on any topic.

The Groups Question

• Dashboards are similar to Groups in many ways: both involve curating a set of related markets.
• One option would be to implement Dashboards as an additional feature exclusive to Groups
• I think would be a mistake: Groups are already very complicated and overload several different types of interaction (curation of markets vs community hub)
• The better approach is to build them in a decoupled fashion, allowing for further integration in the future, if desired

Proposal

• Approach: Create a set of reusable components to generalize what we’re currently doing to manually curate the news.
• Dashboards UX:
  • Are a series of dashboard cards displayed in 2 x 1 grid (on desktop), or vertical list (on mobile)
  • Each dashboard card is either a
    • Market card
      • Should include the graph!
    • News article
    • (or less importantly)
    • Image
    • Text block
    • Tweet
    • YouTube video
  • Dashboard cards look physically like cards, have a smallish border, and have a max width ~440px and variable height (min height of ~200px)
  • Each dashboard has a title displayed at the top of the page
  • Dashboards can be accessed at /dashboards/{dashboard_slug}
  • Dashboard creators can add new cards by clicking a “+” button inside of a card-looking element
    • A popup dialog appears asking users to select one of the dashboard card types, and the further details needed for each card type
  • An icon in the top right shows a popup containing a list of draggable elements showing sort order.
    • On desktop, creators can also drag card elements around to control order.
• Other UI changes:
  • Rename the Comments tab on the porfolio page to something like “Content” (not sure on specific label)
    • Inside, show list of Dashboards a user has created, and a “create dashboard” button (similar to current posts UI)
  • Change homepage to include hardcoded list of Dashboards
    • In the future, we can try to algorithmically choose relevant user dashboards, but manual creation will probably be better for some time
  • Later: Allow Groups to contain one or more linked Dashboards
• Backend design
  • DB tables:
    • “dashboards” with id, slug, title, description, creator_id, last_updated, created_time, dashboard_card_ids (array for sort order)
    • “dashboard_cards” with id, dashboard_id, card_type (”market”, “article”, “image”, etc), card_data (possibly just a json blob), last_updated, created_time
  • API functions
    • /create-dashboard
    • /add-dashboard-card
    • /move-dashboard-card

[iw] Couldn’t these be combined with posts?

[c] Dashboard table has a json column with an array of items

• Alternately, a one row per item of the dashboard which each has the dashboard id
  • [J] Probably better