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Hello lichess!

When I go to lichess/blog/community, I can scroll down 63 different blog posts, presumably each one somehow filtered to qualify to be among these 63 available posts. But how can I find the other blog entries?

I can find some more if I go to lichess/blog/topic: There I get a list of 16 blog topics, corresponding to the 16 different tags applicable to blog entries.
On the right hand side of my monitor it says for the topic 'Puzzles', for example: 'View all 339 posts'. Or 'Endgame', 'View all 279 posts', or the most general tag 'Chess' 'View all 2318 posts'. But if I try to do so, I only get 36 of them to choose from in any topic.

So 63 on community and 36 on each topic, with a certain overlap of multi-tagged posts. Of course I can visit members' profiles and check out their blogging activity..
I understand that there is a showcaseing of high profile content. But I would like to be able to see the blog entries in some list as they appear. Like forum topics, basically. Presumably, every blog entry made is online. But how to navigate there?

Thank you!

Hello lichess! When I go to lichess/blog/community, I can scroll down 63 different blog posts, presumably each one somehow filtered to qualify to be among these 63 available posts. But how can I find the other blog entries? I can find some more if I go to lichess/blog/topic: There I get a list of 16 blog topics, corresponding to the 16 different tags applicable to blog entries. On the right hand side of my monitor it says for the topic 'Puzzles', for example: 'View all 339 posts'. Or 'Endgame', 'View all 279 posts', or the most general tag 'Chess' 'View all 2318 posts'. But if I try to do so, I only get 36 of them to choose from in any topic. So 63 on community and 36 on each topic, with a certain overlap of multi-tagged posts. Of course I can visit members' profiles and check out their blogging activity.. I understand that there is a showcaseing of high profile content. But I would like to be able to see the blog entries in some list as they appear. Like forum topics, basically. Presumably, every blog entry made is online. But how to navigate there? Thank you!

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Huge +1 to this! I think lichess blogs have a lot of great features and the editor is nice to use.

That said, the promoted community blogs, which all have the full five tags (the most popular tags usually), are so heavily promoted they drown out the rest of the content. The blog homepage (community blogs) has essentially been the same for me since two weeks ago. Breaking blogs down by topic doesn't really help, as those same blogs tend to appear at the top of the list for each of the topics.

There's a lot of great blog content I've seen on lichess from friends that simply does not get any views because it's undiscoverable outside of the friend list notifications on the home page. Having perused the community blog posts and those by others, I wouldn't say the difference in quality is so immense that it warrants the community posts taking up so much real estate in every view of the blog page. In fact, a couple of the community posts by popular members come closer to clickbait (misleading cover image, low effort content) than they do to being solid chess blog posts.

My own efforts to create meaningful blog content (https://lichess.org/@/C4L_PeterJ/blog/facing-unusual-openings-ft-vik-and-vik/zsmiIdrA and https://lichess.org/@/C4L_PeterJ/blog/the-best-english-teacher-on-the-pawn-island-ft-gm-ian-nepomniachtchi/KeFTML2f) have been fun in and of themselves, but it's disappointing that these blogs hardly see the light of day without a gaggle of followers. It would be nice to have blogs be a way to gain followers who like a user's chess content as opposed to a reinforcement of those who already have a long list of followers.

I'd suggest keeping the community blog page the same but please, please remove community blogs from the breakdown by topic to improve discoverability for some of the other great blog posts out there. I don't think it would be a bad idea to have the blog landing page (Community -> Blog) changed from community blogs to breakdown by topic because community blogs are already shown on the homepage and occupy the first slot of the breakdown by topic anyway.

Huge +1 to this! I think lichess blogs have a lot of great features and the editor is nice to use. That said, the promoted community blogs, which all have the full five tags (the most popular tags usually), are so heavily promoted they drown out the rest of the content. The blog homepage (community blogs) has essentially been the same for me since two weeks ago. Breaking blogs down by topic doesn't really help, as those same blogs tend to appear at the top of the list for each of the topics. There's a lot of great blog content I've seen on lichess from friends that simply does not get any views because it's undiscoverable outside of the friend list notifications on the home page. Having perused the community blog posts and those by others, I wouldn't say the difference in quality is so immense that it warrants the community posts taking up so much real estate in every view of the blog page. In fact, a couple of the community posts by popular members come closer to clickbait (misleading cover image, low effort content) than they do to being solid chess blog posts. My own efforts to create meaningful blog content (https://lichess.org/@/C4L_PeterJ/blog/facing-unusual-openings-ft-vik-and-vik/zsmiIdrA and https://lichess.org/@/C4L_PeterJ/blog/the-best-english-teacher-on-the-pawn-island-ft-gm-ian-nepomniachtchi/KeFTML2f) have been fun in and of themselves, but it's disappointing that these blogs hardly see the light of day without a gaggle of followers. It would be nice to have blogs be a way to gain followers who like a user's chess content as opposed to a reinforcement of those who already have a long list of followers. I'd suggest keeping the community blog page the same but please, please remove community blogs from the breakdown by topic to improve discoverability for some of the other great blog posts out there. I don't think it would be a bad idea to have the blog landing page (Community -> Blog) changed from community blogs to breakdown by topic because community blogs are already shown on the homepage *and* occupy the first slot of the breakdown by topic anyway.