Update community-redesign.mdx

Author: sonnynomnom

blogs/community-redesign.mdx

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-Hey, it’s Jackie! I work on product design here at Codédex. I’m starting a blog series sharing my design process as we release new features for our platform. We hope this can be interesting for Codédex fans, dabblers in web dev and design, and/or folks generally interested in the ins-and-outs of building at a tiny startup. 🤓
+Hey, it’s Jackie! I work on product design here at Codédex. I’m starting a blog series sharing my design process as we release new features for our platform. We hope this can be interesting for Codédex fans, dabblers in web dev and design, and/or folks generally interested in the ins-and-outs of building at a tech startup. 🤓
 
 Now... let’s talk community!
 
 At Codédex, learning to code isn’t just about taking a course all by yourself. It’s also about getting inspired and motivated, sharing your progress, commiserating over shared goals and struggles—and making friends along the way.
 
-We’ve seen this play out in our Discord community of over 15,000 learners. Turns out, people who join our Discord are 7x more likely to complete a course! Learning together is not just more fun, it’s also more effective.
+We’ve seen this play out in our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/vSKEhP9fY2) of over 15,000 learners. Turns out, people who join our Discord are **7x more likely** to complete a course! Learning together is not just more fun, it’s also more effective.
 
 That’s why community—and building dedicated features for it—is so important to us. We’ve had an on-platform community since 2023, but if you’ve been on our site in the past few weeks you might notice it’s gone through a major glow up…
 
-## Opportunities for improvement🤨
+## Opportunities for improvement 🤨
 
-Our [on-platform community](https://www.codedex.io/community) (OPC) is a place to get inspired and build meaningful connections around learning and building, all while fitting into the broader Codédex journey. But our previous OPC definitely had room for improvement.
+Our [On-Platform Community](https://www.codedex.io/community) (OPC) is a place to get inspired and build meaningful connections around learning and building, all while fitting into the broader Codédex journey. But our previous OPC _definitely_ had room for improvement.
 
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 This is a big and complex area of our platform (it’s pretty much a whole social media platform in the middle of an e-learning platform), so for this revamp we focused on polishing what already exists. We have a lot of ideas for the future, but our starting goal was to create a good foundation for our OPC that we could later build new features onto.
 
-### General changes
+### General Changes
 
 Most changes we made fell into one of two categories: simplification and reorganization.
 
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+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/community" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Community</Button></a>
+</div>
+
 ### Project Showcase
 
 We redesigned our Project Showcase to feel like a showcase, not just another feed. We switched to a gallery-style presentation format for projects that brought greater emphasis to the each project’s cover image, while also making it more clear how to filter by project tags.
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   <img src="https://imgur.com/V3Qlzjf.gif" />
 </div>
 
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/community/project-showcase" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Project Showcase</Button></a>
+</div>
+
 ### Leaderboards
 
 While most of our work was cleaning up what already existed, Leaderboards is our first entirely new addition to our OPC! Right now you can see who has earned the most XP (gained by completing Codédex lessons) so far—for this week, or for all-time. In the future, we want to build onto this and create more opportunities for friendly competition, motivation, and earning rewards.
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   <img src="https://imgur.com/fsZ5V1B.gif" />
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-## What's to come🌝
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/community/leaderboards" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Leaderboards</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+## What's to Come 🌝
 
 In addition to continuing to squash bugs, implement feedback, and improve on what we built\*, we have a bunch more ideas on our plate for Community and more. Stay tuned~
 
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 Startup is startup-ing! 🫡
 
+If you have any suggestions, please lmk here in [this week's QotW](https://www.codedex.io/community/question-of-the-week/Nfc9lO2rO80bz4Xnrd5u).
+
 Until next time,
 Jackie 💖
 
-\*We’re definitely a “get things out the door and test” type of startup, if you’re a perfectionist designer and/or work at a startup, you can understand the struggle 😅 . Thanks for following along our wild, tiny startup journey!
+P.S. We’re definitely a “get things out the door and test” type of startup, if you’re a perfectionist designer and/or work at a startup, you can understand the struggle. 😅 Thanks for following along our wild, tiny startup journey!