Add Last X Content Type Under Links

[patdavid]

On the main page, there are three primary links for the three biggest types of content on the site:

• Articles
• Blog
• Discuss

Including the short text under each link, I thought it would be nice to include the X last titles of those content as well. Here's an example of what the Discuss feed might look like:

[Beep6581]

Looks good. It shows people a sample of what they can find there without having to click.

[paperdigits]

Would you move the latest articles and blog posts to a similar position?

[patdavid]

@paperdigits yes, I was thinking the latest blog+article posts as well (though those are things that can be added during build-time obviously - the discuss feed will need to parse a little json with js enabled).

[paperdigits]

We'd need to parse https://discuss.pixls.us/latest.json right?

[patdavid]

@paperdigits Yep! I think there may even be a way to limit the response to be even smaller? (I haven't checked on that in a while, so I could be mistaken).

[paperdigits]

I can't seem to locate a max response parameter in their api docs.

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On December 28, 2016 8:13:23 AM PST, Pat David ***@***.***> wrote: @paperdigits Yep! I think there may even be a way to limit the response to be even smaller? (I haven't checked on that in a while, so I could be mistaken). -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #18 (comment)

[patdavid]

I haven't been able to find one either - have we checked how big the json response is? Maybe it's not too bad?

[paperdigits]

Seems to be the last 30 posts in the json response.

[paperdigits]

I'm going to slowly work my way through this, as my javascript is horrible.

$.ajax("https://discuss.pixls.us/latest.json").then(function (result) { 
  var topics = result.topic_list.topics; 
  for (var t = 0; t < topics.length; t++) {
    console.log(topics[t].title); 
  }
});

[patdavid]

Where'd the jquery come from?

[paperdigits]

The internet! I was hunting for a way to process the latest.json feed and came across that snippet on the discourse forum. I executed the code in the debugger and it seemed to work.

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On May 16, 2017 9:19:08 AM PDT, Pat David ***@***.***> wrote: Where'd the jquery come from? -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #18 (comment)

[paperdigits]

Poking around, I see these:

• https://gist.github.com/surrealroad/6990268
• https://jsfiddle.net/8kkg3/
• https://labs.daemon.com.au/t/embed-latest-topics-from-discourse-on-your-website/540