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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. The first link related to Flyertalk is the 21st result and links to a blog post from Jan 9, 2020, not the forums. the 28th result is the UA thread “Everything You Want to know about where to sit on a 77-200 Polaris…” The SEO for the forums is…dismal, at best. |
Originally Posted by Norri
(Post 36063499)
+1
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? |
You guys know how reddit has basically engulfed the traditional forum structure?
there's a phenomenon where google search is so garbage nowdays where you'd google a question and append "xyz reddit" at the end so you can get more candid and succinct answers from what seemingly are real people i do that with flyertalk! "sheraton eau claires calgary flyertalk" "air canada vdb compensation flyertalk" and what happens when i get my own question answered? I click on the trending page to see what's new and notable on the board at least that's what i used to do. i was among the perfect organic traffic customers, i think |
As I result of the FOMO from the loss of the trending tab, I looked for alternatives and see there are RSS-era see-everything "New Posts" and "Posts from Last day"
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...1785139&query= https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...1785134&query= What's the difference? |
Originally Posted by csycsycsy
(Post 36064603)
As I result of the FOMO from the loss of the trending tab, I looked for alternatives and see there are RSS-era see-everything "New Posts" and "Posts from Last day"
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...1785139&query= https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...1785134&query= What's the difference? |
Originally Posted by nancypants
(Post 36064634)
neither of those links is working for me, but the problem with “new posts” etc is that you don’t get any kind of sorting other than based on time of posting, so a lot of brand new and not very interesting threads to wade through and an occasional thread of interest
But yes, please bring back a trending page, ads injected and option to filter out BA :) |
FT Issues
If I click the flyer talk logo I get a page with trending posts on the right hand side, there is a button that says see all but when I click this I get a blank page saying "page not found "
Please can anyone help ? |
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Originally Posted by asovse1
(Post 36044369)
Not sure if intentional or whether I’ve highlighted something that will be shut off, but I’m thankful trending is still accessible by this url https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php
This does not work for me
Originally Posted by IBJoel
(Post 36043709)
I will say that we are monitoring traffic over the next few weeks, so if it tanks, we'll know that the Trending Page was a significant driver
This smells like all the FF program changes : We have listened to our customers and so we have enhanced away the things they like, but dont worry we will keep telling them its better. |
Originally Posted by IBJoel
(Post 36043709)
I will say that we are monitoring traffic over the next few weeks, so if it tanks, we'll know that the Trending Page was a significant driver
Did thousands complain about its existence ? |
I just wish mobile at least had "new posts". With trending gone, mobile is left with nothing.
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Sadly it has been deactivated. I quite liked the trending page because I would see posts that might interest me in forums I wouldn't usually frequent.
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Originally Posted by Smiley90
(Post 36065031)
I just wish mobile at least had "new posts". With trending gone, mobile is left with nothing.
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I agree, I really miss it and hope they reinstate it. How was it harming anyone? If you wanted to click on posts of interest you did, if you didn't, you didn't.
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I knew about the deactivation. Not about this thread. Sadly I don't ever remember seeing a thread opposing the deactivation of the trending page on the trending page itself.
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