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Epic: Showcase weekly highlights #125
Description
Why
The showcase channel has no way to surface or reward the best work. A recurring digest with community voting would boost visibility and feedback for showcase posts. It would also give posters recognition.
Child Issues
- Showcase digest: recent posts sorted by thumbs up, with comment count #126 Showcase digest: recent posts sorted by thumbs up, with comment count
- Showcase voting: vote on the best post and announce the result after 3 days #127 Showcase voting: vote on the best post and announce the result after 3 days
- Showcase winner role: assign a role for
ndays to the user with the most votes #128 Showcase winner role: assign a role forndays to the user with the most votes - Showcase ranking: add more criteria (votes, thumbs up, comments) #129 Showcase ranking: add more criteria (votes, thumbs up, comments)
Acceptance Criteria
- All child issues are completed.
Open Questions
Tracked in the child issues.
Out of Scope
- Changes to existing showcase moderation or the showcase deletion flow.
- Historical leaderboards or stats beyond the announcement post.
Activity
foxeddev commentedon Sep 30, 2026
I don't think a voting system is needed when you have thumbs-up reactions, nor do I think comments should influence the top posts because comments aren't necessarily positive.
To be honest I think a simple reaction counter would be enough. Maybe we don't even need a voting period, we could just highlight posts with a reaction count above a specific threshold.
What I imagine: https://docs.starboard.best/#what-is-a-starboard
wiktoriavh commentedon Sep 30, 2026
People currently do not thumbs up posts at all, i mostly see the Adobe Illustrator Logo (Ai) used on posts. So this is a means to encourage people to participate in the showcases more, and especially more positively.
If reactions would have been enough, we would have already seen people do that, but they don't. Mostly they are toxic to others, so this is taking another approach to it.
Additional criteria:
And generally we will have to watch and adapt over time. We can start small. I will break this ticket up into several and make this into an epic.
[-]Showcase weekly highlights: periodic digest, voting, and top-three announcement[/-][+]Epic: Showcase weekly highlights[/+]ndays to the user with the most votes #128