Add Ember Times to the homepage somewhere

[mansona]

We currently have a section for "unofficial community resources" on the homepage but we don't have anywhere to put general official resources that we want to highlight.

Even if we don't want a general "list of official resources" the Ember Times is important enough that we should give it somewhere pride-of-place on the homepage to inform people about it and encourage them to subscribe 👍

[alexeykostevich]

@mansona , this is a great idea — Ember Times is definitely worth to be noticed!

Let me share some my thoughts. I apologise if some don’t make much sense: I’m totally new to Ember and, likely, don’t see the whole picture. However, a fresh look from newcomers can still be helpful :)

Looking at http://emberjs.com, I’ve found out a few things, which might me important:

• There is no real separation between official and community resources on the website. For example, the Community page mentions the Blog, Ember Times, Ember Weekly in the “Stay Up to Date with the Latest News” section.
• Ember Times issues are published both in the Blog and on the Ember Times website. Interestingly, I was not aware about a dedicated website for Ember Times and just checked the Blog.

Taking this into account, I would recommend 2 possible ways forward:

1. If the Ember Times website is not going to be deprecated in favour of the Blog, we can replace the “Blog” menu in the header with more high-level “News”. “News” will include “Blog”, “Ember Times” and “Ember Weekly” (this is what https://vuejs.org/ does). This being the case, I would also consider publishing issues only in Ember Times (lbut not the Blog to keep their purpose well-defined.
2. If the Ember Times website is going to be deprecated in favour of the Blog, I would keep the menu as is. Then, we can provide a way to subscribe to all blog updates right in the Blog.

With regards to me, I like option 1: Ember Times has charm of a newspaper :) However, it will require additional effort to maintain 2 separate websites.

With regards to encouraging people to subscribe, we could create a banner (with a mascot-reporter?) as a reusable ember-styleguide component and add it to the Home and other pages.

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[amyrlam]

Made a PR to kick off some discussion on implementation: #662

[manurampandit]

@mansona - As the PR by @amyrlam is merged for this, can we mark this as closed (or move forward the discussion if required)

[amyrlam]

@manurampandit @mansona I'll close this since it's there now:

[manurampandit]

Thanks a lot @amyrlam for closing this.