Proposal for a Community Bulletin Board Feature to Highlight Important Posts

Hi team! Love the community guidelines feature so far. With that, I had an idea of another feature similar to a bulletin board in a cafe where you could automatically gather all pinned posts in your community to surface for others to find. The goal here would be to have a central page for important posts upvoted by the community or admins.

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Zach Hawtof
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Scott Baldwin if I recall, you brought this one up to us ages ago, right? Wondering if you have any thoughts.
Scott Baldwin
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🤔 not sure if I did before Zach Hawtof We used Canvases in my last communities to help with this as a workaround. For sure a nice to have feature is that ability to pin stuff, and I know Discourse and some other platforms do offer this capability, but I've often found folks will either just ask again or ignore. Search for sure can help elevate some of that content too ensuring people find the right answers.
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Zach Hawtof
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Good to know I need to take better notes on who asked for that one! If only Tightknit had search 😉 The key here is something on the companion site. We’ve explored canvases as webpages, but the Slack team hasn’t released a read API for it yet (we’re still pushing). Until then, I wonder if we could introduce something where we show the 3 most recently pinned messages or something along those lines. Thanks for kicking off the convo Eric Nague
Scott Baldwin
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Some food for thought around pinning and how to better handle it in this Bettermode thread https://bettermode.com/hub/community/ask-for-help/post/pinned-posts---not-going-to-top-of-block-Vj5HZsbBhgrcWlt Maybe all you need in Tightknit is a way to “feature” a post or two or three
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Zach Hawtof
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Interesting thought. So maybe “feature” which is like a pin but contains a timed component to it (including the option for “Forever”)
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