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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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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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.

@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 ?!

Trending feed vs Home vs Following — all different. Unless you’re making the Home feed the new trending feed that surfaces those casts with most engagement first, makes no sense to get rid of Trending.

It doesn’t — It’s always a completely different feed — see video below — I want to see what people are engaging and that’s much easier to see in its own feed.

It doesn’t — It’s always a completely different feed — see video below — I want to see what people are engaging and that’s much easier to see in its own feed.

https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0xe10a37a6

To be very honest, I don’t have a problem with the way the random things pop up in my feed, I too want my casts to get to everyone’s home feed, but there should be a way to regulate my casts getting into everyone’s home feed and theirs get into mine, most especially the new users, and people I am not following.

And that was why the trending feed was made, so I can find new people with a like mind on topics, but if the trending feed is not there, the home feed is poor and the following tab is outdated, what then is the way forward?

The trending topic too isn’t doing any justice, the current trending topic will most likely be the trend till next week, maybe when you or Dan cast about how well you loved Kaiju. No 8, despite other trends that surpass it.

I am sorry if any of what I have said came out as rude or insulting to the team or you🙏

I am just airing my feedback, because I spend a whole lot of time on this app, and yet my home feed is not used to me, I even go as far as throwing people into the void (muting them), because I just want a personalised home feed

My trending was showing people cast about the sky on ITAP, or people saying GM GM, or random things that have only 2 likes.

My home feed is currently whack, I have to find users to see what is going on lot go to channels by myself and feed the algorithm, but still doesn’t work😪

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The most interesting thing is that I used this bookmark for the FARE HARE digest although this trending show only Top far users

The most interesting thing is that I used this bookmark for the FARE HARE digest although this trending show only Top far users

https://farcaster.xyz/renatov.eth/0xaa55533b