Make it possible to only filter /​ see unread posts by default on the forum homepage.
This past month I’ve noticed I’ve missed a bunch of cool and relevant posts because they dropped off the home page too quickly for me to see them. I’d like that not to happen. Not a suggestion, but related: it seems like some good posts fall of the homepage way too quickly. It would be nice to give those posts a chance to be seen. Often if there are a couple really high popularity posts in a week then the people who happened to post less popular posts get unfairly disadvantaged, which seems suboptimal.
Thanks Vaidehi! Filtering only to unread seems like a good idea, I’ve added that to our backlog.
Regarding your second point: If you have a suggestion for how to increase visibility of other posts, let me know. My current best guess is to improve targeting, i.e. users who are most interested in animal welfare posts will disproportionately see animal welfare posts, which will give those posts increased visibility amongst the people who most want to see them (albeit at the expense of hiding non-animal welfare posts from these people).
Yeah so maybe I’m somewhat of a minority but as a meta person I’d like to see at least the headlines of most posts, and wouldn’t want those to have less visibility. Mainly because I’m concerned about only consuming meta content and not staying in touch with object level advancements.
Not a suggestion per se—will comment later on if I have any.
Make it possible to only filter /​ see unread posts by default on the forum homepage.
This past month I’ve noticed I’ve missed a bunch of cool and relevant posts because they dropped off the home page too quickly for me to see them. I’d like that not to happen. Not a suggestion, but related: it seems like some good posts fall of the homepage way too quickly. It would be nice to give those posts a chance to be seen. Often if there are a couple really high popularity posts in a week then the people who happened to post less popular posts get unfairly disadvantaged, which seems suboptimal.
Thanks Vaidehi! Filtering only to unread seems like a good idea, I’ve added that to our backlog.
Regarding your second point: If you have a suggestion for how to increase visibility of other posts, let me know. My current best guess is to improve targeting, i.e. users who are most interested in animal welfare posts will disproportionately see animal welfare posts, which will give those posts increased visibility amongst the people who most want to see them (albeit at the expense of hiding non-animal welfare posts from these people).
Yeah so maybe I’m somewhat of a minority but as a meta person I’d like to see at least the headlines of most posts, and wouldn’t want those to have less visibility. Mainly because I’m concerned about only consuming meta content and not staying in touch with object level advancements.
Not a suggestion per se—will comment later on if I have any.