Improve website's SEO/UI/UX

[3DRX]

Perhaps we can improve a little bit on the SEO of blogs?

• Have different title and description for each blog post.
• Have open graph to make it look good on social media.

Edit: Here are a check list of things to fix

• Font size too big on mobile
• Width incorrect on mobile, horizontally scrollable
• <title> and description in <meta> is always the same (bad for seo), should generate them from each blog's title and description
• Opengraph for better looking in social media
• RSS, currently there's pion.ly/index.xml generated, but it includes not only blogs. We need some thing like pion.ly/blog/rss.xml

[JoTurk]

We need to enhance the UI and the UX too, I think.

[3DRX]

Sure, I have a few UI/UX improvement ideas here:

• Add rss feed
• Static render mermaid charts. Current mermaid support is by rendering mermaid client side, this can't be changed unless we move off from hugo. For example, we can migrate to some thing like Astro to use node.js during build time to execute mermaid.
• Currently the stying on mobile is not perfect in small details.

@joeturki Do you think it's worth it to migrate the site's static building stack? Personally, I think Astro is easier to work with since it allows executing javascript during build time instead of using non-turing-complete template language.

I think it won't be hard for me to port existing design and content to Astro, and fix a few issues too.

[JoTurk]

What if we make a milestone for the website v2, and add issues? no deadline just to track issues.

As for Astro, I think moving to something like Astro would make stuff more complex, I don't mind using it personally or better using VitePress, but I'm not sure if we need them now, The website is simple, and we can improve it and add all the stuff we need without something really hardcore. Also JavaScript frameworks in general requires maintenance, updates, and we have limited man hours, I rather us maintaining the libraries themself. We can see our options and see with others, However, I can't stop you if you still want to do it, just my 2 cents :)

For the UI and the UX, I think we can do something cool and simple. I used to be a web dev for years, I can try to draft some UI changes in the discord :)

[3DRX]

The website is simple, and we can improve it and add all the stuff we need without something really hardcore

I agree, let's keep using hugo for now, I love doing things that's good for the community in general. I'll try to fix existing issues to keep it simple but hopefully better :)

[3DRX]

What if we make a milestone for the website v2, and add issues? no deadline just to track issues.

Sure, how about changing the title of this issue, and use this issue as the tracker?