What is Conduit

What Conduit is

Conduit is a social blogging site and a Medium.com clone. You use it to authenticate, create and manage articles, comment on articles, browse paginated article lists, favorite articles, and follow other users.

Before you start

Home is the place to find articles, rather than a form where you enter or save records. The public Global Feed is available without signing in. Your Feed is available when you are authenticated; it collects the following feed for your account.

Prerequisites

• To use Global Feed, have access to the Home page at /.
• To use Your Feed, sign in first. It shows articles from people you follow. Use Sign in if you are not authenticated.
• To browse articles by topic, start from Home with a topic link available in the Popular Tags area.

If you request that list without authentication, Conduit redirects you to /login.

When these conditions are ready, open Home.

A feed is an article list. A tag is a topic value that filters the article list.

Open Home

Home is the article-finding surface at /. It brings together the feed choices, article list, tag list, and article pagination in one place.

Prerequisites

• You know whether you want the public Global Feed or the authenticated Your Feed.

Steps

1. Open /.

Result: Home opens with the feed choices and the article-finding surface.

With Home open, choose the feed or topic that matches what you want to read.

Choose a feed and browse articles

Prerequisites

• Home is open at /.
• You are signed in before choosing Your Feed.

Steps

1. Choose the list that matches what you want to read.

   If you want to…	Select
   Browse the public article list	Global Feed
   Browse articles from people you follow	Your Feed
   Browse articles marked with a topic	A tag in Popular Tags

2. Select an article title or Read more... to open the article.

3. Select a page number when the article list has more than one page.

Result: The selected feed or tag determines the article list, and a selected article opens the article surface.

Use the Home results to interpret what is loading, available, or empty.

Understand the Home results

Home presents article previews alongside Popular Tags. The article area changes between loading, loaded, and empty states; the sidebar changes between loading tags, showing tags, and showing that no tags are available.

The tag tab appears when Home is filtered by a tag. The article area shows pagination in its loaded state, with one page button for each available page.

Home does not provide fields to complete, a grid to edit, or a save or submit action. Use the article pages for article work instead.

For feed-specific guidance, see Loading and unavailable states.

With the results understood, continue to the area that matches your next task.

Continue from Home

Use Home to discover content, then continue to the surface that matches your next task. Conduit includes sign-in and sign-up pages, an Editor page, an Article page, and a Profile page around the Home experience. It also includes authentication, article work, comments, favorites, and following.