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I understand the point of giving some prominence to new stuff, but I think it's also worth remembering that there is a reason why the great big old threads are so popular. I wonder if it would be worth having, similar to how lots of online stores do, a 'top threads' and a 'trending threads', where the score for the former is not affected by age, but is for the latter?
Anyway congrats on the new forum, for me it doesn't work quite as well as the old one yet, but it's clear that you're working really hard to fix problems and there are already a few promising signs of things the new forum will do better than the old. I'm sure it'll be awesome soon.
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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".