Two more ways to explore arena are now live, both relating to channels. A good starting point to test it out is the checking out the channel "cool channel names/channels I like" and following through to all the connections.
The channel page header now has the channel owner in its taxonomy, with the ability to navigate to the owner's page (clicking only works for users now, not groups).
You can now click on a channel block to be taken to its channel page.
It's hard for me to describe the underlying data-structure of arena, but something so clear is that it has an insanely wide breadth, and the ease of exploring the breadth of it is what makes it so powerful. I'm slowly starting to feel like this project is hitting this same feeling of discovery and that's super exciting & motivating for me.
Channel pages, at their most bare form, are live: arena-next.vercel.app/channel/arena-influences. Fast follow will be displaying the channel description & owner taxonomy in the header.
So much engineering work went into the blocks, particularly related to how they query the Apollo cache for data instead of having them passed down as props in React. Excited to write in depth about this later. Besides big code changes, the blocks now don't have a white background for visual clarity, and their text size is smaller.
(imo), the coolest feature of every page so far is there are literally 0 layout shifts after a page loads. Everything that is rendered serverside determines the final skeleton of the page. This means that when you click into a block & explore its subsequent pages, you'll still have your scroll position on every page in your history when you navigate backwards.