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Do you think there's a possibility that the Trending dynamic favours the sort of threads that pop up quickly and receive a small flurry of comments, then die out forever, over the more steady consistent threads that have kept people coming back for years?
Yes. That's rather the point.
The consistent threads people already have bookmarked/followed, etc.
But new content that receives a lot of attention and yet isn't something you already follow (how could it be, it's new) goes unnoticed by many.
The point of Trending is to highlight hot topics that you aren't already following.
If we remove the effect of age on the score, it would leave Trending permanently full of Bike Porn, Football, Anti-Porn, etc. It would have no value to anyone.
Though this is all mute, as we're thinking of just replacing it with "Today".
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Do you think there's a possibility that the Trending dynamic favours the sort of threads that pop up quickly and receive a small flurry of comments, then die out forever, over the more steady consistent threads that have kept people coming back for years?
I don't seem to see threads like Bike Porn, FBNPNA, Current Projects, Rat Bikes etc appearing in Trending. Instead there seems to be quite a few threads where people have opened a thread to ask a particular question (eg, a practical fixie, does a frame like this exist, should I be concerned).
Because these threads pose a question, several people jump in at once and post answers and advice etc, which puts the thread into Trending. The threads like Current Projects etc seem to be more slow and steady, but they have much more enduring interest and I personally think they ought to be given more prominence - for me they are the meat of the forum, and the more fly-by-night threads are very useful when you want to post one, but less useful for the forum as a whole. Maybe the today's posts feature that is hopefully forthcoming will help address this change in dynamic.
Other bugs still appearing for me - on Nexus 4 with latest Android and Firefox, the bottom of each page with all the page number buttons doesn't display correctly. Also select-to-quote still isn't working on Windows 7 with Firefox or Android with Firefox or OSX Mountain Lion with Firefox, it just writes the word blockquote. Also Persona is still a bit shit - it doesn't remember me all the time and there are sudden and unexplained logouts. A huge amount of people seem to hate Persona, is there zero chance of moving away from it?