Originally Posted by
IBJoel
I spoke with our product team and they confirmed that the algorithm remains the same. The factors taken into account are thread creation date, total replies, and replies/time, among some other stuff.
There are still empty trending threads posts with no data in them (shown below). At first I thought these were threads that have since been deleted or moved, but there is no way that's possible (there are moved threads elsewhere on the page). The other issue is that Omni/PR threads are now showing up on the trending threads page, which previously never happened and probably shouldn't happen. Interestingly, when I click on the Omni/PR link for that thread, it takes me to a completely different forum (the Hyatt forum, which is where this thread was started I imagine) but when I click the thread itself, it takes me to the thread located in the Omni/PR sub-forum.
Looking at some of the threads in the Omni/PR section for the first time ever, I would
highly recommend that sub-forum be excluded from the trending threads page if at all possible. I really don't think FT wants some of the threads on that page being visible when you click the main forum page and considering how many posts some of these have, I'm certain they'd show up on the trending threads page often. This is the first time I've ever seen an Omni thread on the trending threads page despite having Omni access for a long time now so something must have changed regarding which sub-forums are allowed to populate the trending threads.