# Big improvements to our community's forum **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 9, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698 "2016-11-09T23:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![QuincyLarson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/quincylarson/32/212400_2.png) [@QuincyLarson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/QuincyLarson)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/1 "2016-11-09T23:07:43Z")
We’ve listened to everyone’s feedback and made a ton of improvements to our forum. ###Improvement #1: HTTPS 🔒 Our open source community takes security seriously. Now everything on our forum is encrypted using SSL. ###Improvement #2: Simplified Categories 🌲 You don’t need to add a category to your posts, but if you do, they’re now much simpler. Here’s the full list: - **News** - post articles, videos, tools, podcasts, events - anything you think other campers might be interested in - **Help / Questions** - get help or ask general questions. This category features a Stack Overflow-style “Accepted Answer” functionality, so the accepted answer will show up right below the question - you won’t have to scroll through to find it. - **Reviews** - write reviews for literally anything: programming books, online courses, even Star Trek episodes if you want. You can give something 1 to 5 stars. Then other campers can reply with their own ratings. The thread will show the average rating. - **Getting a Developer Job** - write about your interviews, job offers you receive, salaries, your first few days on the job, or really anything related to your developer career. - **Wiki** - learn about a wide variety of programming languages and technologies, and contribute to our shared knowledge base. - **Project Feedback** - get feedback on all projects - not just your Free Code Camp practice projects. Due to a huge volume of posts, these no longer show up in the main news feed. - **Meta** - talk about Free Code Camp’s community itself - this forum, our chat rooms, local study groups, our YouTube channel, Medium publication, curriculum - whatever you want. Now I’d like to acknowledge several campers who’ve been extremely active here on the forum, volunteering their time and expertise: @ArielLeslie @Azdrian @BenGitter @Diego_Perez @imtoobose @IsaacAbrahamson @JacksonBates @kevcomedia @MARKJ78 @michaelhenderson @P1xt @PortableStick @Rafase282 A huge thanks to these generous human beings for spending their scarce time here, helping their fellow campers! ⛺ And finally, a massive thanks to all of you for hanging out, sharing your thoughts, and answering questions. Our community’s forum has already become one of the biggest, friendliest technology forums on the internet, and we’re just getting started! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![zsoltime](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/zsoltime/32/4252_2.png) [@zsoltime](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/zsoltime)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/2 "2016-11-09T23:20:05Z")
Some great changes. > [@QuincyLarson](#): > > Should it be the default here instead of “latest”? Nope 😛 At least I prefer the original ‘latest’ view by default. ---
**Author:** ![s\_coder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/s_coder/32/26587_2.png) [@s\_coder](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/s_coder)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/3 "2016-11-10T02:52:16Z")
Neat changes. I like the new red bar showing the new activity since my last visit. I do agree that showing the posts by most recent activity is what I prefer. ---
**Author:** ![BenGitter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/bengitter/32/12192_2.png) [@BenGitter](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/BenGitter)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/4 "2016-11-10T07:17:45Z")
Are the “New” and “Unread” views gone? ---
**Author:** ![JacksonBates](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/jacksonbates/32/123402_2.png) [@JacksonBates](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/JacksonBates)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/5 "2016-11-10T07:19:15Z")
![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/original/3X/9/0/90d7ccbf2501f7161b5d6571f58ab7265afe2a20.PNG) I can see them on mobile. Haven’t checked the big screen. ---
**Author:** ![JacksonBates](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/jacksonbates/32/123402_2.png) [@JacksonBates](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/JacksonBates)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/6 "2016-11-10T07:20:11Z")
There are also some new features such as the ‘blur spoiler’ plugin! > **Spoiler** > > Although I still prefer our old hack for big chunks of spoilery goodness! ---
**Author:** ![BenGitter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/bengitter/32/12192_2.png) [@BenGitter](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/BenGitter)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/7 "2016-11-10T07:29:02Z")
Ah, thanks. They used to be besides the “hot” and “latest” buttons, but this works as well. ---
**Author:** ![QuincyLarson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/quincylarson/32/212400_2.png) [@QuincyLarson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/QuincyLarson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/9 "2016-11-10T07:48:57Z")
Yes - my suspicion is that “New” and “Unread” are mainly used by power users like yourself (I personally never used them). I hid them from the navigation to make it less intimidating for new campers, but they’re only one click away: ![](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/uploads/default/original/3X/9/a/9aa31ff2b3345e6256408e365c6ef3be09dfa284.png) ---
**Author:** ![JacksonBates](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/jacksonbates/32/123402_2.png) [@JacksonBates](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/JacksonBates)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/10 "2016-11-10T07:55:05Z")
I think the transition to https, or at least a software upgrade, has fixed the bug I used to complain about which forced me to re-login between sessions when I swapped devices! Yaybies! ---
**Author:** ![BenGitter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/bengitter/32/12192_2.png) [@BenGitter](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/BenGitter)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/11 "2016-11-10T07:55:56Z")
Yes, I noticed that as well. ---
**Author:** ![QuincyLarson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/quincylarson/32/212400_2.png) [@QuincyLarson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/QuincyLarson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/12 "2016-11-10T08:00:13Z")
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**Author:** ![QuincyLarson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/quincylarson/32/212400_2.png) [@QuincyLarson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/QuincyLarson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/13 "2016-11-10T08:05:32Z")
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**Author:** ![QuincyLarson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/quincylarson/32/212400_2.png) [@QuincyLarson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/QuincyLarson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/14 "2016-11-10T08:05:41Z")
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**Author:** ![QuincyLarson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/quincylarson/32/212400_2.png) [@QuincyLarson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/QuincyLarson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/15 "2016-11-10T08:09:06Z")
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**Author:** ![QuincyLarson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/quincylarson/32/212400_2.png) [@QuincyLarson](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/QuincyLarson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/16 "2016-11-10T08:09:11Z")
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**Author:** ![JacksonBates](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/jacksonbates/32/123402_2.png) [@JacksonBates](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/JacksonBates)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/17 "2016-11-10T08:14:07Z")
@QuincyLarson Now that the projects are off the front page, might it be good to have a button on the `Latest Hot Top Categories` bar on the front page. Maybe the label could be something like `Review Projects` to make it clear? (Just spitballing…not married to this idea 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![MARKJ78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/markj78/32/160083_2.png) [@MARKJ78](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/MARKJ78)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/18 "2016-11-10T08:29:39Z")
> **Double Encryption** > > Noticed and appreciated too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JacksonBates](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/jacksonbates/32/123402_2.png) [@JacksonBates](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/JacksonBates)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/19 "2016-11-10T08:50:12Z")
I tried triple…didn’t work ☹ > **Nothing to see here, Mr Putin** > > > **Encryptception** > > > > Ah, Mr Snowden I presume? **Edit:** Unless you inspect element! ---
**Author:** ![MARKJ78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/markj78/32/160083_2.png) [@MARKJ78](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/MARKJ78)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/20 "2016-11-10T08:52:17Z")
Wow this is like Inception haha 😴 I tried having details inside details once… figured some of my users wouldn’t want to go looking in the dev tools tho 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MARKJ78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/markj78/32/160083_2.png) [@MARKJ78](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/MARKJ78)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698/21 "2016-11-10T09:15:46Z")
> [@QuincyLarson](#): > > Improvement #2: Hot filter 🔥 > > You can sort any categories by “recent”, “top”, and now “hot”. “Hot” is an algorithm-driven filter similar to what they use on Hacker News and Reddit. It will sort by the most commented-on, most ❤'d posts from the past few hours. I think a forum of this nature might benefit from an “unanswered” hot filter. I know you can order the column on any forum page, but that gives unanswered from all time, for which we’ve obviously missed the boat for most of them. [Next page](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/big-improvements-to-our-communitys-forum/53698.md?page=2)