User blog comment:Toughpigs/My Home -- new feature launches on Wednesday/@comment-10370-20091006225725

Porter21 -- I think My Home is actually doing a pretty good job of promoting the new blog posts on Fallout. Looking at the Hot Spots right now, the #1 link is "Weekly digest 40-2009", which is also the top link on the blogs section of the main page. The #2 Hot Spots link is another blog post, "Todd Howard Gives His Top Game Picks of all Time", which has gotten a bunch of responses but isn't featured on the main page.

Hot Spots is designed to highlight what the community is interested in and working on; in that sense, it fosters community-building in a stronger and more democratic way than a main page that's usually only edited by admins.

That being said -- I'm really interested in the ways that you'd like to customize My Home. I've been reading all the feedback that I can about it, and this is the first time I've heard somebody say that they want to customize it more. So -- what do you have in mind?

Our first pass at making My Home customizable is the Community Corner -- we wanted to see how communities would use that space before we worked on adding more custom spaces to the page. So far, it seems like most communities haven't done anything with it.

There are a handful of wikis that have been using it -- for example, MySims Wiki posted a friendly welcome to new users there, in character as a MySims avatar. Avatar Wiki uses that space for helpful editor links, and Muppet Wiki uses it to highlight active discussions and to promote upcoming events. Halopedia, TibiaWiki, Halo Fanon, Total Drama Island Wiki and Club Penguin Wiki are using it to post wiki announcements, and FlashForward Wiki, Redwall Wiki and Monster Hunter Wiki are using it to highlight pages that need more editors.

Those are great examples, but that's all that I've found so far -- so I wasn't aware that there was a lot of energy around customizing My Home yet. What would you like to do with the page, if you had the ability to add more?