Allow Personal and General Hot Topic Feeds \ stacker news ~meta

Allow Personal and General Hot Topic Feeds

629 sats \ 25 comments \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul meta

The prevent social networks from eating up way too much time, I found myself having decently efficient glances at SN by just looking at the hot topics feed. However, I'm sure I'm missing good material I'm interested in, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this. A more optimised feed algorithm will not only increase reader matches but importantly, writers income. Many good posts get buried way too son, and the problem will exacerbate as SN scales. Following stackers is a first solution but can't scale well as the user-base increases. I'm following 3 stackers and that alone fills up my notifications feed (and that's after I had to unfollow a couple because it was unmanageable).

My suggestions:

Allow tagging of posts, universal across territories, and/or territory-specific as per the owner.
With tagging implemented, ponderation on the hot ranking can be calculated per user in a similar manner as it's now calculated for the general user-base. That will increase the chances for a user of not missing posts he may consider important, be it new or old stackers. Muting does the rest really well.
This can play along with the hot ranking at general user-base level to also have a sense of the general community.

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105 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 31 Jul

All good suggestions. We have so so many plans to improve all of this already, but we've been exclusively working on our wallet plans.

Once those are done, and it shouldn't be much longer now, we can get back to doing the stuff most people care about.

74 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 31 Jul

That's super cool, the wallet is no less important (I learned that the hard way when starting with nostr).

As always, thank you for your time and kind reception :)

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheMorningStar 1 Aug

This is a good ask. Good to see the top stacker replying everyone! No, Hirerachcy, no feudalism! Great scenes!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 1 Aug

Indeed :)

41 sats \ 18 replies \ @k00b 31 Jul

Have you tried browsing top?

Also, your hot feed gets more personalized as you zap more.

21 sats \ 11 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 31 Jul

Now that you mention it, I found that I end up using just hot and recent, for top tends to mimic hot most of the time, so it's more time efficient to just browse hot and recent.

31 sats \ 10 replies \ @k00b 31 Jul

I mention top because you mentioned "missing good material." Top, if you look beyond a day, should ensure you don't miss stuff that other people found good.

21 sats \ 9 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 31 Jul

I'm sure of that but, I have also noticed that there's a cycle of activity, and there's a period in which posts get very little attention, so that mostly posts published within the more active time-window are the ones ending up on top and hot (correct me if wrong). Thus I'm not missing what other people consider good material, but we might be all doing it. It's of course an impression of mine, it would be interesting to see if your metrics indicate that attention tends to be more distributed

41 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 31 Jul

No, you're right, there's definitely an american-based activity cycle. Most of the people active on SN are in the western hemisphere. We just don't have a lot of folks on SN yet.

31 sats \ 7 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 31 Jul

Ok, it's something to ponder then, because it could lead to a "chicken before the egg" situation: potential stackers out of that time-window might get demotivated at starting because their windows of activity are out of sync, and thus their material statistically fail to catch attention. So they leave, and thus the public within that new time-window never develops. So there should be a way to flatten the ponderation bell of the ranking a little bit more so that it can overlap just well enough with other time-windows to help them to catch up.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul

SN time zone is central or the same as Chicago

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul

https://t.me/stackernewsrss

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 31 Jul

What's that?

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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 31 Jul

I'm having a good enough experience already with Hot, thank you for the clarification, I didn't know the feed was already personalized, sorry for that... ...might still the suggestion of tags help to optimize the calculation?..

41 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 31 Jul

We are going to have sub-territories in the future, e.g. ~bitcoin/mining and ~bitcoin/script, etc, which are effectively tags.

31 sats \ 3 replies \ @didiplaywell OP 31 Jul

Cool! :)

120 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul

I created bitcoin mining territory for now

Then move to mining sub territory in the future when it launches

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 31 Jul

Yep, we plan to allow them to be moved around.

Also, to have aliases, so you could have both ~bitcoin_mining and ~bitcoin/mining which have the same content (if one wanted).