Disconnect between post types and website views?

[Obi Griffith]

I sometimes find it confusing that when I create a new post I can choose from:
Question
Tutorial
Tip
Blog
Forum
News
Review
Tool
Video
Job
Research Paper

But I can only find ways of filtering the display of posts to type: Question, Forum, How To (which I now notice groups together Tutorials, Tips, and Tools), and Jobs. What happens to posts of type Blog, News, Review, Video, and Research Paper?  Do some of these end up under the mysterious 'Planet' tab? I made a blog post the other day and couldn't for the life of me find it on the front page or elsewhere except by going to my own user and looking at recent activity. So, I deleted it and re-created as a 'Forum' post. It would be great if there was some way to see/filter posts by all of these types. In particular, sometimes I want to peruse through just tutorials, or just tools, or just videos, etc. Although, now that I know about it, I like that the 'How To' section includes Tutorials, Tips and Tools. Maybe somewhere there should be a brief description of what each type of post is for, and where/how they will be viewed once submitted?

[Istvan Albert]

Sorry about that, these sections were more prominently featured before
but were removed when the site got simplified.

The rules are following. Everything but a Blog post will show up in
the "Show All" tab. That is the catch-all section. All the other tabs
are just shortcuts for filtering/ordering posts that are also on some
page of the "Show All" tab.

The Blog post type is special and goes under Planet. In fact there are
two sub-types of Blog posts, those created by a user and blog posts
generated from the Planet Feed. The ranking for Blog posts is
different than the ranking of questions so it is possible for a new
Blog to not be the first entry but somewhere lower on the page.

The Blog type is a bit idiosyncratic - blogs created via the feed are
not full Biostar posts, their links will redirect to the originating
site. On the other hand blogs created by a user are a full Biostar
post with regular rules. The little outward pointing arrow in the
title indicates whether a blog post will redirect outside or stay on
Biostar.

This all comes from experimenting with content and seeing what works
and what does not. I will make a section in the FAQ and link from the
content creation page there. This really needs a rethinking and
perhaps simplification.

best,

Istvan

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Istvan Albert
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Pennsylvania State University
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[Obi Griffith]

Thanks for clarifying. It sounds like a FAQ entry would clear up most of this issue. At some point it would be great if there were also further filter/view options to just look at tutorials, etc. But, I also appreciate your desire to keep the page from being too polluted so many tabs.