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I’m sooo unhappy Trending was eliminated. It was the first thing I read every single day!
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Originally Posted by BrandonAB
(Post 36052895)
The trending page was something I looked forward to checking every day. Many interesting topics that I otherwise wouldn't know anything about. Bring it back!
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As another data point, when I could click on "Trending" topics, I would wander all over the site and look at the various forums involved. For the past several days, though, I simply click over to "Finnair," read the two or three articles that have new posts, and bid the site adieu. Regardless of Internet trends, I would hope that the value of a reader utilizing the entire site, not just a small segment, is clear to the site owners.
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I'm not spending nearly the time here I did when Trending was the default landing page. I would like the option of it at least, even if it's not the default anymore. I learned a lot by scrolling through the threads shown on that page.
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To expand on what I said above. I don’t actually have specific forums that I like to follow. My number one carrier is QF but there’s a dedicated Australian frequent flyer forum elsewhere that is more active than the Qantas forum here. What’s been great about the trending view is it give me a view into what’s interesting people around the globe and it allows me to dip in and out.
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And the first I knew about trending being deactivated was when it was deactivated because the banner was never shown on the trending page.
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Add me to the list of those who have learned ever so much about all things travel thanks to Trending Topics. I would love to see it back for all the reasons already stated in this thread.
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Adding my voice to the chorus. Please bring back trending!
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Originally Posted by Sweetone
(Post 36057256)
Trending was my go to page. I will miss spending time learning on Flyertalk. I'm another vote for a return of Trending. Please?!!
The thing is, a lot of the people speaking up in this thread are the among the much smaller group of content creators who happen to enjoy trending threads. Stripping away that functionality might seemingly be a smart use of IB's resources in the short term, but if the content creators drift away out of boredom, then the quality of the remaining content will diminish. |
I've drifted away already. Apart from this thread 😃
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Originally Posted by kathkiwi
(Post 36062826)
I've drifted away already. Apart from this thread 😃
Now just a quick flyby past one or two threads and then I'm gone. This is sad. |
Originally Posted by kathkiwi
(Post 36062826)
I've drifted away already. Apart from this thread 😃
It looks like there are a large number of longtime members who post rarely (myself included) mourning the loss of the trending list. I don't expect it would take much to convince those members to drift away, perhaps they are not important in the greater scheme of things? |
Originally Posted by WCT3U
(Post 36043684)
+1
I completely agree. They switched from a dynamic page under IB control to a basically static table of contents. There's no reason anymore for me to waste time opening https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/index.php since a visit today will just give me the same content as yesterday's viewing. I guess I'll set up some bookmarks which take me directly to the forums I follow instead. I'd like to see the discussion that went into this decision. It seems to me that this will compartmentalize people whereas the trend showed unity by giving us a view into what people were talking about in forums we may not follow. I really don't use "social media" websites. Flyertalk is one of the few. But youtube has the "algorithm" that selects content for its home page. The youtube algorithm does a scarily impressive job giving me new content from channels that I subscribe to as well as suggesting videos that I might also want to watch. If I was asked about potential modernization to flyertalk, I would have expected it to employ its own algorithm to bring me more into the content and site. Showing me a simple table of contents with just a "last post" in each entry is reminiscent of how web sites were done decades ago, imho. Just an aside: I hate Youtube's algorithm. Fortunately for me, I found a way to inhibit all those annoying suggestions by turning off watch history. |
Originally Posted by returnoftheyeti
(Post 36040085)
Yeah, thats too bad. It seemed for some reason to be about half BA, but that may have just been the busiest forum.
Trending was how I found out about a bunch of cool stuff. I actually don’t understand this at all, all the new social media sites have a top, or review, or a “timeline” and they are often pushing ads, or what they want you to see. This will lessen “my” use of Flyertalk anyway. For example, the trending page is how I learned CapOne was buying Discover. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...74649935e.jpeg My eyes completely glazed over this….wow…maybe I should take some time off from the Internet |
Originally Posted by moondog
(Post 36062741)
I can sort of hypothesize why trending and/or new posts pages aren't appealing from IB's perspective; their SEO value is probably close to zero. The pages that attract views from the internet at large and can be marketed to them are presumably popular airline forums like BA (we've been told of its greatness many times) and travel hack type content (e.g. mileage run deals) that competes with blog sites.
The thing is, a lot of the people speaking up in this thread are the among the much smaller group of content creators who happen to enjoy trending threads. Stripping away that functionality might seemingly be a smart use of IB's resources in the short term, but if the content creators drift away out of boredom, then the quality of the remaining content will diminish. |
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