I’ve been thinking about this a bit.
Long-term
I think in an ideal world, we’d find a way (via the API) to show posts relevant to that individual user (e.g. based on their notifications - replies to their posts, categories they’re following etc.)
For new users logging in (who still sees the onboarding steps in the dashboard), perhaps fixed topic (a ‘welcome to the community’ discussion) and a couple of dynamic links - perhaps a recent ‘top’ thread from Repair Stories and another recent ‘top’ one from Repair in your community.
Mid-term
Given we’ll be making certain areas public at some point, using RSS feeds seems feasible.
Short-term
Perhaps for now, we could just include a few static links to key discussions (welcome to the community, introduce yourself and maybe something like Ellie’s improving practices in community repair series?
Quick question though @neil - is it not possible to draw discussions through via the API using a non-admin account?