Another vote for the trending page or some other consolidated landing page. While I’m mostly a AA and AS flier (and accessing their specific threads works fine), viewing the general travel “trends” across all carriers and destinations on the trending page was very useful. Plus, without the trending page, I would have never discovered the story of C-W-S reuniting a little girl with her stuffed bear. Those priceless stories are what gives FT heart and character.

I think another poster mentioned earlier that any page can be removed from the Google overlords "spiders" somehow someway.

I've gone from probably 2 hours per day to less than 15 mins (and I'm new!)

Wouldn't it be easier just to add a bit of code to tell the crawler to ignore the trending page? Then you can have the best of both worlds.

With that I understand better why it was removed. It would have perhaps been better to acknowledge this directly earlier on in the discussion which may have eliminated the need for a lot of posts questioning the motive behind the removal. I had noticed when searching recently using Google for a thread that I remembered being on FlyerTalk but couldn't remember where it was that the FT hits were quite a way down the results. I took to specifying site:flyertalk.com in my Google searches for FT content to bring them to the top, but this obviously would not work for someone not looking specifically for a FT thread or not knowing how to specify a site specific search on Google.

+1 100%. Without knowing the in's and out's of the SEO I am hopeful this could work. It would be a solution that solves everyone's problem.

Another vote to please bring it back. I find myself less on FlyerTalk with trending gone—that’s probably a good thing for me, but sometimes I just want to veg and discover what’s going on in the industry. The only forum that I regularly frequent is the AC one. The rest I normally would get to via trending which I’d normally peek at least once a day.

Again, the Trending Page as it was is simply not coming back. What I'm working on now is getting a different product operational on FlyerTalk. It looks something like this (please keep in mind that I don't know to what extent this is customizable):

IBJOEL...why are you acting like an airline with sharing enhancements?

First couple days the trending page won't load. Then the deactivation banner when clicked, leads to " people didn't like it".

LAME!

After reading THIS thread, where are those applauding your decision, in the comments?

Completely tone deaf by IBJoel.

Again what you have said make no sense to me, is gaming google more important that taking care of your customers ?

Again ?? I thought you said yopu would be monitoring activity , but it seems now that as others have said, "I dont care how many people say they want it, it is not what people want as without it we can "game" google. "Game" normally means doin something that is not strictly legit !

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Also, IBJoel it looks like in your example you still have the same ghost thread issue Flyertalk had in 2018.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/30175884-post53.html

People, let's let IBJOEL do what he (or his higher-ups') needs to do. If it brings in more readers, great! If it loses a lot of their major contributors, that's their issue to resolve as well. All we can do is use it or not, move on or not when the time comes. As he has stated, the trending page is not making a comeback regardless of what is said here. While we might not want to accept it, it is what it is.

I will hang around, but participate less as my interests evolve (and the board's direction changes).

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For comparison - resetera.com is an IB (pop culture & gaming) board with what looks like ~10-fold the traffic of FT. It has a trending page. Might be a more "aspirational" board to compare itself to? Clearly they've managed to make having a trending page work.

See, e.g., Post # 114, supra.

Bad decision for me. I will likely delete my bookmark and just seek out FlyerTalk now and again when I have a specific question or a lot of extra time. Trending was a daily bookmark click for me.