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Sort threads in top-level category by Most Recently ... Created? Updated?
This looks like a defect only in the top-level category. Right now the threads have the most recent created at the bottom.
Proposal: on home, both categories and threads should be sorted by most recent post
👍 I like the idea of activity recency bias; it's worth trying at least and see if that turns out to be unusable .. Or if it sparks new ideas.
In forums is usual to see users bumping their own threads. Eliminating the update if the poster is the same in the last 2 posts could avoid that, or developing some metric of recency which factors the author self-promoting a thread into account.
In forums is usual to see users bumping their own threads. Eliminating the update if the poster is the same in the last 2 posts could avoid that, or developing some metric of recency which factors the author self-promoting a thread into account.
This would prevent update posts from being bumped though, which is quite an often use in Discourse as an example.
However, Discourse bumps a thread if it is edited or liked in some situations, that is not so useful...
@agustif @OvermindDL1 One way to get around the bumping might be to actually provide a feature for it -- a bump button or something. This would allow us to properly regulate it, instead of trying to prevent people from doing what they want to do.
Well, maybe something more akin to what hackernews/reddit does would be appropiate.
What we need to avoid I guess, is users creating posts because of a lack of a better feature for what they want to achieve, guessing it's in this case, the community deciding the order of the topics in a category, not necessarily by last_post but for current interest... I dont know... Some old threads would get buried and never be on page1 position1 that way, even with recent posts, maybe if a topic reengages enough users to pass a treshold gets back on the homepage...
What would give it the visibility to be able to re-engage enough users then though?
@OvermindDL1 "re-engage enough users" ? The forum's job is to make the content available. It's not the forum's job to make people click on content.
The original goal of this issue was "show participants that something new happened". For instance, I created this thread a week ago and I don't know if anyone's even clicked on it.. Because it's at the very bottom of the page and has been since it was first created. https://firestorm-dogfood.herokuapp.com/categories/food-for-thought/threads/17
@agustif "Current interest" is horribly vague and, at least passively, has the potential to punish participants. Before implementing it, we should make sure we have a good understanding of what exactly it is that we want to show users --- and I think that needing to implement something like this would be a great problem to have because it would mean we are so successful we actually have some need for a crowdsourced filter.
I was thinking having followable and other stuff for topics/people would help to re-engage users interested in that topic/user content even if it's not in the top forums.
Anyway, and keeping twitter fuckfest in mind, keeping things chronological always help to understand the system to the regular user.. less magic and more -logic-