Originally Posted by
BRITINJAPAN4
If you look at the comments, you will see that for many people this was simply, useful. If others did not like it, they don't need to use it.
Surely instead of look at "drivers" and wanting to be "competitive" you could simply provide what some users would like to continue using.
Surely some route back to the system that provided the trending threads MUST be simple and possible ?
SEO does not work that way, unfortunately. You can get actively penalized for certain things (that are frequently opaque)