I'm guessing "new posts" has always been present in the mobile skin and I simply missed it because I became so accustomed to the trending page.

But, now that I've found it, I'm going to give it a test drive to see if I enjoy scrolling through new posts and choosing threads that appear interesting based on their titles and/or popular.

Yes, the world has always been evolving into a better place by simply accepting what someone else decides is best for us and no one ever speaking up !

Impossible to say if that's the case. Maybe they'd have 20 times if they removed it.

"Bring back the trending page please"
Stop pleading, they don't care.

Unfortunately, neither you nor I am the customer. Google is the customer. We are the product.

You misunderstand. You have made your case, as have others and have been given the response from management. Obviously they have a different vision for FT than the majority of the users in this thread. As far as I know, IBJOEL is just an employee who has received his marching orders so berating him doesn't help. So the question is how can you change the direction of this site at this point. Just venting in this thread won't do much. This thread isn't seen by most readers (vs my previous comment about if this thread were on a trending page). I haven't seen the announcement post link in a while so I assume even fewer readers are going to post their preferences here.

So the only thing I can think that might influence management is take the advice we give to people unhappy with an airline. We walk with our clicks/eyes. If the traffic goes down significantly, that might change management's mind. The hope being that this is done before the more prolific posters with the significant active knowledge base leave for greener pastures.

As I have said, I have noticed a drop in traffic in the existing threads and forums I am subscribed to. But others might not have experienced this.
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Many thanks for this - a serviceable alternative!

Personally I found the experience less than optimal. Here's why. On the first page of my "New Posts" page, I have 20 or so posts. Currently it goes back to roughly 20 minutes ago. Let's say the BA sub forum gets active (which it used to).... my page will become BA centric. While it wasn't perfect, the Trending page would give other forums a somewhat fair shake.

To be fair, I haven't explored it completely to see if it can group by subject lines (or threads with new posts even), but if all I see are BA posts, then the page isn't going to help that much.

YYZ and eqeqeqx are essentially right.

Let's lay our cards on the table: I make $22/hr after nearly 9 years here. I HELPED DEVELOP Trending.

If you think I make the call to cut it, you're out of your GD mind.

Corporations are not your friends. It doesn't matter how much time or money you've invested. Every decision they make is simply to fuel unsustainable "infinite" growth, whether it makes you feel horrible or warm and fuzzy. You and I are just some numbers on a spreadsheet to them.

Now I am trying my best to manage this situation and work something out that is a feasible replacement. So you've gotten it out of your system, I've taken it, because I get it. I truly do. Late capitalism is a true Hellscape. But I really don't need the contnued attacks, please and thank you.

I use the New Posts functionality on a regular basis and have always preferred it over Trending Threads.

Thanks for the honesty. Good to know it's not your view IBJoel.

The homepage Trending module seems to be back! Updated for me just now with new topics.

I can see new topics (a shortlist of topics) on the main page but https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php still says page not found.

I'm back! I've found New Posts is just as much fun as Trending ever was. Actually, some of the 'smaller' posts are as good to know as anything I learned on the old Trending. Thanks for the pointer Canarsie. And to IBJoel, thanks for your patience with us as we vented our hurt at the loss of Trending. It's an unenviable task.

Yes, so we fixed the widget to update, but that page will remain defunct. I'm working on something more permanent