Increase diversity of homepage gallery

[dhruvkb]

Description

The Openverse.org homepage shuffles between 3 collections of images: pottery, universe and olympics. These collections represent a infinitesimal fraction of the 800M+ images in our collection.

pottery	universe	olympics

The goal is to surface the collection of images on the frontend via an API endpoint (that can be cached long-term) so that the list of images can be changed often. We can also use this endpoint to provide topical images based on events, holidays, feature launches etc.

These images can serve as entrypoints for a more exploratory approach to the collection (#2710) rather than one that revolves around search.

Documents

• Project Proposal
• Implementation Plan(s)

Milestones/Issues

Prior Art

There has been some discussion about this on Slack.

[madewithkode]

Hi @dhruvkb this looks like an interesting one, however I see a possibility of the full implementation spanning multiple tasks(between FE and BE/API). Is there a possibility of further breaking it down into smaller more actionable/approachable units? This would be very appreciated as it'd reduce the perceived complexity from a high level overview. Happy to try my hands on it regardless, just might require more time and handholding.

[dhruvkb]

@madewithkode since you have considerable experience with the architecture of the project, would you like to take a stab at breaking it down into smaller issues?

We'd be happy to help if you feel stuck or need assistance.

[madewithkode]

Haha...That was a good comeback! I guess I'd do it afraid then 😂

Would hit you with relevant questions as I proceed.