Categorize the homepage

You can just search big mountain videos in the video section, NS doesn't want to change which videos show up on the front page because its based on the videos that are the most popular. If you like a big mountain video, give it an up vote and share it with your friends via twitter, fb etc and if they like it they can upvote it. The front page is 100% based on the community and having "sections" would just make it more complicated than it already is, there are sections in the video/photo sections where you can see just big mountain content.

Did you read the op?

Ehv is right, its not that hard to simple go to the videos tab and see the most popular videos in whatever category you might want to see

Did you read Evan's post?

I read evan’s post. In the op I said, “I know you can search different categories in the pictures and videos section.” But the idea here is too get different kinds of skiing in the limelight by getting it on the homepage. I upvote stuff I like. That’s not a lot of votes though. I realize categorizing the homepage would kind of defeat the purpose of system, which only lets the most popular stuff as voted by the community, make it to the top of the homepage. There’s no way around that.

Right now what you see on the homepage represents perfectly what most of the NS community likes. But for the small amount of powshredders that visit NS they don’t really see anything that catches their eye on the homepage. I’m not saying that’s a problem. But I think it steers some people away. I think a lot of people don’t go past the homepage in search of entertainment. Also if someone makes a sick edit that won’t get appreciated by the NS community but will bring lots of stoke on TGR that person might decide not to post their stuff and I think we’re missing out. Most of the people I ski with don't visit this sight.

If you browse the big mountain videos section right now it's seriously lacking compared to the really quality park edits we get.

So I actually know exactly what you're saying - and even see the need for this. However, its not quite as simple as you might think.

The problem here is addressing the niche categorization issue that we face.

NS has always been an absolutely unfathomable block of data - but there has been very poor organization to it. There's tonnes of good stuff, but finding the good stuff you want has been difficult.

The move to the new voting system, and community curation was the first step in developing the meta view of what is good content. That is awesome, and has worked swimmingly. Whether you want hot, or you want top rated - you can get great stuff based on the overall view of the skiing community.

The root of the problem is that NS lacks a tagging system to properly link all this information together. As soon as you do big mountain vs. jib, immediately you realize that there's tonnes of other sub categories you'd like... rails, street, jumps, style, pipe... to add one is the same issue as adding all of them. We need to build a system to globally handle it and then we need to rally the people to help us do it.

Its a task that is on our horizion though. The big strategy that we have come to with Newschoolers is first to allow the community to decide what is cool. Second, to allow you to customize your experience whilst digesting said cool content. Right now the customizations are relatively basic, but we have big plans to enhance that side of things.

TL;DR - Fantastic idea, not super simple to implement, and we want something like it too.

Thanks Bishop. That was actually really informative. I think a "customized experience" is a good idea and glad that's something you're working on.