Polish walkthrough tiles on Get Started page

[miguelsolorio]

Ref #165846

Currently when you open VS Code as a new user you'll see these three walkthroughs, which can be quite intimidating. Additionally, there are two large cards, which tend to add to the overall "loudness" of the page:

Proposal

We can clean up the cards we show by default to tone down the visual clutter and we can also allow for the new/updated walkthroughs to be placed near the top, but featured walkthroughs should always have the highest priority.

• Only show a single featured walkthrough
• Reduce amount of walkthroughs to two
• Merge parts of the productivity into others
• Move updated/new walkthroughs to the top (except when there is a featured walkthrough)

[alefragnani]

Personally, I don't think reducing the amount of walkthroughs to two is a good alternative. Quite the opposite. If you only display two, why an extension developer would care about creating it, if those won't be displayed?

I've published a walkthrough for one of my extensions, and was really disappointed to not see it available in some of the machines I use, because other extensions also provided their own.

I have other 3 walkthroughs ready to be developed, but I'm still waiting a few issues to be fixed in VS Code API prior to properly develop them. With this update, I'll probably not release any more walkthroughs.

I hope you think in other alternatives.

Thanks in advance

[digitarald]

@alefragnani to clarify: Reduce amount of walkthroughs to two is about the built-in walkthroughs (setup, fundamentals, productivity). Whereas Move updated/new walkthroughs to the top should address your pain point that extension-contributed walkthroughs don't make it above the fold right now when the list gets too long.

I hope that clarifies so you'll keep adding walkthroughs.

[alefragnani]

@digitarald thanks for clarifying, and I’m sorry for the misunderstanding.

I’ll certainly continue with my walkthroughs plans.

Thank you

[daviddossett]

I made a change in November to reduce from 2 to only 1 features extension to reduce noise here. Closing given no other activity here.