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NeXT

NeXT

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What is this?
I get that I guess the forum checks to see what threads are seeing a lot of recent attention and gives you a list but it's clearly broken. It's pulling up a ten year old thread that's so dead nobody has ever replied to it, then another one that's just as bland, while three other threads which I have seen a fair amount of activity last week are pushed to the bottom.
 
Just face it man your trending! Your kind of a big deal.. You own many leather bound books...
 
but like, I'm not?
There's no data to prove that a ten year old post on a crummy wireless security system is one of the most read topics on the entire forum. I refuse to take that as a compliment in favor of it being a bug.
 
Alright step into the ranks of mediocrity with the rest of us if you want.

It just makes me remember not so long ago when this Forum "upgraded" and barely functioned for a while.... This bug makes that seem like not a big deal.
Not that Im casting shade on what you brought up, I am sure you are right and its a bug.
 
Al Kossow said:
I object to it taking up a third of the space on the right side of the page for something I NEVER want to look at
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Im with you on that one. Its definitely something they added inspired by "antisocial media". Im all in favor of having it removed.
 
Al Kossow said:
along emogi "likes" on every post
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Sure we could get rid of those to and bring legitimacy back to the forum. You get my vote for that to. Anything else? How do we move forward with it rather than just waste our breaths? Put it to a vote?
 
It's also under the forum tab. The "What's New" tab seems kind of superfluous to me, you can find everything under forum.
 
NeXT said:
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What is this?
I get that I guess the forum checks to see what threads are seeing a lot of recent attention and gives you a list but it's clearly broken. It's pulling up a ten year old thread that's so dead nobody has ever replied to it, then another one that's just as bland, while three other threads which I have seen a fair amount of activity last week are pushed to the bottom.
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Be very careful about those so called 'dead' threads. They've been known recently to kick up a wild anal refuse storm. :rolleyes:
 
This has been bothering me for a while too, long enough for me to think about it and come up with a theory: perhaps it's a feedback loop, where the forum isn't all that busy, so a few bored people people clicking on whatever shows up under "Trending" keeps those things trending? Eventually though everyone will realise that every time they click on "The Dicon" thread it hasn't changed and they'll stop clicking on it. Perhaps it's instead the case that clicks from non-users count, so web crawlers keep following those links - because they're near the top of the front page - and keep making them "trend"?
 
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