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[EarlG]

101. So, we actually have a plan for videos

In some of the screenshots you can see a reference to "Latest Videos". This is going to be an entirely new page. It's still in the works, but the idea is to archive the old "Video & Multimedia" forum and replace it with what is essentially a Latest page for videos.

How it works: Anytime someone posts a video in an OP in any forum on the site, the thread will be featured on the Latest Videos page. Default view will be chronological order (newest first) but the page can then be filtered/sorted by number of recs, last replied to, political vs. non-political, etc. -- just like you can currently do with regular threads on the Latest page.

This means that the Latest Page will no longer have the three video links, but there will be an entire new page which essentially expands those three videos to 50 or 60. So you can simply avoid that page if you want to.

FWIW, instead of the old Latest Videos section on the Latest page, DU4 has a new section called "Forum Spotlight." This will feature three recent threads from a randomly-selected smaller forum, and the selected forum will rotate every few hours. You can see it in the first screenshot in this post:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215726589#post21