Varun Srinivasan
@v
Starting today, the trending feed will be removed from Farcaster apps. Trending was launched a few years ago to help user discovery. Since then we've added better ways to discover users: in-feed suggestions, rewards leaderboards and algo recommendations. Fewer than 5% of users check the trending feed everyday, and the algo we use for trending is no longer helpful for discovering new users. In the spirit of simplifying the app, we're removing this feature which has long outlived its purpose.
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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
@nounishprof
This sucks. So how are you planning to replace? The home feed doesn’t do it and neither does the trending topic which only surfaces one or two different topics each week? The value of trending content on a social network is so obvious — just as obvious as trending tokens.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
it should show up in your home feed. if it didn't im curious what kind of stuff you were discovering in trending that wasn't in home.
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adrienne
@adrienne
@v are you taking this away bc of criticism it favored OGs too much and people, especially newer and younger, didn’t like the content they’d see there? Can you leave it and hard code access to prof and me? Helps us curate for our show, which in turn helps provide a service to the greater ecosystem If it needs maintenance that is too expensive, can you at give it to us for the time being until we update our own discovery engines? @nounishprof one way to look at this is while it makes our jobs harder, it also increases the value of the service we provide since people will have to tune in to get a pulse of what is trending ?!
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