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I am Treasure Hunting - Task #3

woodziPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago2 min read

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The third task of the treasure hunt by @ijmmaiwitness consists of writing a post about the trending page.

Do you use it, why and how?

I mainly use the trending page to check for major news, developments in the community and to get a sense of some bigger topics that are being discussed.

The 'personal feed' provides me with content that I enjoy from people that I follow.

If I want to find new content or new accounts to follow, I mostly use the 'new' feed for that (often in combination with a search for tags like the photography tag for example), instead of the trending page.

For me, the trending page is more like the 'newspaper' of the Whaleshares platform. Of course the Discord channel also provides news and updates.

if you could change how trending works, how would you change it?

Maybe the trending feed could be based on engagement instead of upshare value. The posts with the most amount of comments would get to the trending page, instead of the ones with the highest payout. High engagement usually means that the post is worth discussing and probably pretty interesting.

Besides the trending page, new page, tags and personal feed, some more filters and search options would be useful. Things like being able to search for posts of a certain amount of days old, posts in specific languages, posts with engagement, combining filters and tags, searching only pages or searching posts...

The current search options aren't very intuitive and do not have a lot of options.

would you like trending to be removed?

I think there is a value for the trending page if it is based on more and/or other parameters besides the payout. I don't think it needs to be removed. If anything, there should be more ways to search and find content.

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