Hi Everyone 
Some of you may have noticed we’ve been working on some cool Devtalk updates these past few months, well, these are now complete 
In Short:
- We’ve updated the Devtalk homepage and front-end system
- We’ve updated our PragProg errata system
- We’ve introduced a new AI category
- We’ve added
In The Newssections to all main categories
In more detail…
Devtalk Homepage and Front-End System
In short, there are now more pages on our own front-end system:
Category Listings and Category Filters, eg:
Previously we just had Filter By:, now we also have sub-category filters.
#Tag Portals
We now have a portal for any #tag - which gives you the same trending lists as our main portals. This means you no-longer need to rely on us to create portals (such as devtalk.com/elixir) as every tag on the forum now has a tag portal, eg: devtalk.com/tags/nvidia, devtalk.com/tags/chatgpt, there’s even one for devtalk.com/tags/musk 
Can you still request a portal being set up? Yes - though it only really makes sense to set these up for languages or frameworks which have a public repo and/or post official blog posts on an RSS enabled blog (as portals pull in the latest release info and blogs).
Links now keep you on the front-end
…unless you specifically want to go on to the forum.
For instance on these:
All of the links now keep you on the front-end apart from the link at the bottom right, which takes you straight to the last post on the forum.
Thread Previews
When you click through to a thread (from the title via one of the above) you are now taken to a thread preview:
This includes the first post, and then underneath, either:
- Any post that has been marked as the solution
- Up to three of the most-liked posts
- Or if a post exists but does not qualify for the above, the first post as per the screenshot
These previews also contain a Where Next section, which includes a link to the thread on the forum as well as links to any related /portals or #tag pages (or book pages if there’s a related PragProg errata-enabled book).
The nav/breadcrumbs in the top now also keep you on our front-end system:
PragProg Errata System
This has now been updated to make it easier for both authors and readers to browse threads for books, and whenever a book thread receives a post from an author (for instance to acknowledge a fix) they can mark the thread as solved and a tick will show with that thread, eg:
New AI Category
AI has been a huge topic these past couple of years and there’s no doubt it’s going to get even bigger, so we’ve now created a parent category for AI topics with the corresponding front-end category/portal: devtalk.com/ai - if you’ve not ventured into, have a look, there have been some really interesting AI related discussions!
New ‘In The News’ Sections
Every main category now has an In The News section. Use this if you find any interesting article or blog post (that you have not written yourself - if you’ve written it yourself, use one of the Blog Posts sections). Our CommunityNews bot now aims to post in one of these instead of the original In The News section which was in the General Dev category.
Related, the old News sections have now been renamed to Official News, and now only our NewsBot can post official news in them.
And more!
There have been other minor tweaks here and there too, but the above are all the major changes. There will be one deprecation, and that’s we’ll be removing all additional forum themes as they are just too much to maintain. We’ll instead focus on our default theme and perhaps look at introducing a proper dark mode later.
Ok! That’s it for this update! Thank you all for bearing with us while we’ve been working on these changes - we hope you like the updates! 