Move current Explore feed into Home Community tab
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	Mazevedo
	Fri, Jul 17, 2:55 PM

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Based on the experimentation done in T431501, we're moving our current explore feed into the Community tab for an incremental release of the feature.

Hide language picker when the community tab is selected
Theme, RTL, and Dynamic Type should work
Keep old explore settings, add new Home settings for the For You feed only
Add a Phase 2 dev setting - enabling this flag adds the new community stub UI, eliminates old explore settings, and adds Community Home settings.
Eliminate the possibility of turning off the explore feed

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Mentioned In: T434262: Release 2026.08.09
T433559: Release 2026.07.30
T433407: Release 2026.07.31
Mentioned Here: T427578: Rename "Explore" to "Home" & remove "W" tooltip, scroll to top
T427924: [Eng] Create Feature Flag
T427673: [L] For You Feed: Shared Card Chrome & Navigation
T431501: Smoke test legacy explore feed + For you feed

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Mazevedo created this task.Fri, Jul 17, 2:55 PM

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Mazevedo triaged this task as High priority.Fri, Jul 17, 2:55 PM

Mazevedo moved this task from Ready to Doing on the App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 15 - Jul 28]) board.

Mazevedo set the point value for this task to 3.

Mazevedo updated the task description. (Show Details)Fri, Jul 17, 4:34 PM

mazevedofs opened https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/6014

Mazevedo moved this task from Doing to Needs Code Review on the App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 15 - Jul 28]) board.Mon, Jul 20, 3:34 PM

mazevedofs closed https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/6014

Can be tested in 8.3.0 (6119)
Needs the Enable Home Tab dev settings

@HNordeenWMF i feel like this is not something i need to review, as the entire community feed is not polished and this seems more like a technical move? correct me if i'm wrong.

@SChekfa-WMF correct, please just review the new pill treatment over "Community" , and how that looks on scroll

@HNordeenWMF makes sense. @Mazevedo the community/for you segmented control is behaving incorrectly. it is supposed to be glassified and floating above the content as you scroll, per liquid glass design principles, not fixed to a white header that blocks a good ~sixth of the content as the user scrolls, and even more so on smaller phones:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oxCpk5I2rje5VWMn4uY_6z85YBvm5aTb/view?usp=sharing

please glassify accordingly to fix this experience. also, please ensure you are using the segmented control component from the latest version of iOS, as the animation for switching between views is not behaving as i see it do so on other apple apps, such as apple calendar:

current in light and dark modes:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HQIApVE0ZhHL4KwVhHBxH0clin2FbsyD/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QfK-eCC5icRrrhu-yGTI0XmT_pMQPuNP/view?usp=sharing

apple calendar in light and dark modes:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15X29yHas3R4oEVZ7SsV19n5LgfaZn7Cq/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17mjkQc38TvdDuY88aR9M-JOygEYkPXnW/view?usp=sharing

@HNordeenWMF @SChekfa-WMF

also, please ensure you are using the segmented control component from the latest version of iOS, as the animation for switching between views is not behaving as i see it do so on other apple apps, such as apple calendar:

current in light and dark modes:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HQIApVE0ZhHL4KwVhHBxH0clin2FbsyD/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QfK-eCC5icRrrhu-yGTI0XmT_pMQPuNP/view?usp=sharing

This work is being done in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427673 , so let's not do duplicate work.

The liquid glass material issue - OK.

HNordeenWMF moved this task from Backlog to P0 (Current Sprint) on the Explore Feed Refresh iOS board.Mon, Jul 27, 2:12 PM

Mazevedo moved this task from Ready to Doing on the App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 15 - Jul 28]) board.Tue, Jul 28, 10:51 AM

mazevedofs opened https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/6039

Mazevedo moved this task from Doing to Needs Code Review on the App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 15 - Jul 28]) board.Tue, Jul 28, 2:45 PM

GitHubPRBot mentioned this in T433407: Release 2026.07.31.Wed, Jul 29, 2:00 AM

mazevedofs closed https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/6039

Seddon edited projects, added: App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 29 - Aug 11]); removed: App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 15 - Jul 28]).Wed, Jul 29, 3:52 PM

Seddon moved this task from Ready to Needs Code Review on the App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 29 - Aug 11]) board.Wed, Jul 29, 3:52 PM

Seddon changed the point value for this task from 3 to 0.Wed, Jul 29, 4:45 PM

Seddon set Final Story Points to 3.

GitHubPRBot mentioned this in T433559: Release 2026.07.30.Thu, Jul 30, 2:39 AM

Mazevedo moved this task from Needs Code Review to Needs Design Review* on the App Experience (AppEx Sprint [FY2627 Jul 29 - Aug 11]) board.Thu, Jul 30, 12:24 PM

@Mazevedo it seems we've lost the ability to jump to the top of the feed. Currently you re-tap Explore in the tab to jump to the top. You should also be able to use the "W" to jump to top

@SChekfa-WMF with this build, do you want jump to top for tapping on "Home" or tapping on "Community" in the picker

@HNordeenWMF it should still be the W that scrolls the user up to the top in Community.

@Mazevedo thank you for the fix. some things that popped up with the latest build that wasn't a bug in the previous one:

1- on iPhone, the navigation should also be floating and not fixed to a footer (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SdIi8vJaNcgN0JoLG_g_3XFe5X3XyqIJ/view?usp=sharing)

2- the navigation bar on iPad is scrolling out of view when the user starts scrolling down in Community (https://drive.google.com/file/d/14FnKgpCb9rpwfEWm9WXWbwnJLhewfpXD/view?usp=sharing)

In T432471#12172500, @SChekfa-WMF wrote:

@HNordeenWMF it should still be the W that scrolls the user up to the top in Community.

@Mazevedo thank you for the fix. some things that popped up with the latest build that wasn't a bug in the previous one:

1- on iPhone, the navigation should also be floating and not fixed to a footer (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SdIi8vJaNcgN0JoLG_g_3XFe5X3XyqIJ/view?usp=sharing)

2- the navigation bar on iPad is scrolling out of view when the user starts scrolling down in Community (https://drive.google.com/file/d/14FnKgpCb9rpwfEWm9WXWbwnJLhewfpXD/view?usp=sharing)

@SChekfa-WMF

1 - I don't understand what you mean here.
2- That's how the current explore feed works in production.

In T432471#12172029, @HNordeenWMF wrote:

@Mazevedo it seems we've lost the ability to jump to the top of the feed. Currently you re-tap Explore in the tab to jump to the top. You should also be able to use the "W" to jump to top

@SChekfa-WMF with this build, do you want jump to top for tapping on "Home" or tapping on "Community" in the picker

@HNordeenWMF this was changed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427924, and it was not in any tasks's requirements as we stripped all the old code. Can we get a new task for this? Or add it as a requirement to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427578, I think it makes sense to be done with that task.