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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Toluwanimi Ajisafe
@retalien
Very valid question, I was going to ask, so what is the way forward? Home feeds are poor, the following tab is outdated 80% of the time. The trending topic doesn’t even work at all, if the whole app isn’t talking about it, it won’t trend. Two weeks ago, the trending topic had 26 casts and 15 of them had nothing to do with the topic.
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