As someone with a general interest in commercial aviation, I used the trending page to get a sense of what's going on in the aviation community.

Used to spend >30min a day on FT, all driven from the trending page. I haven't spent a minute on this website since the trending page went away.

Indeed, so can FT please reinstate the function ?

That is a pretty poor decision. I used to always land on the Trending page and spend my time browsing the site from there.
I cannot imagine why you would want to remove it, rather than move it?

Like others, I have barely been on here since it was disabled. I, too, assumed it was a technical issue.

As a newer member on these forums Trending is the page I would always check as I have 0 alligence with any other Flying Program so I enjoyed looking at what was popping up. My time on this forum has significantly decreased. If that was the plan by the site administrators than they did a great job.

I’ve been using flyertalk for years but never really posted, until now, just to say please bring back trending. I loved reading the trending page for a few minutes everyday, without it I wouldn’t visit flyertalk unless to look something up

This thread is really most appropriate for our Technical Support forum, so I'm moving it there and will flag for the forum moderators, who will likely merge it into this existing thread: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tech...-top-page.html

chgoeditor
co-mod, Info Desk

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 ?

I asked about the algorithm in this forum two years ago because I was curious about it, and learned that nobody knew much because the guy who built it left IB several years prior to then. So, maybe there's some reticence to continue using a black box that might no longer be cutting edge? If so, making a new algorithm wouldn't have to be super challenging. I've mentioned that showing new posts only would be an improvement over the current solution (i.e. nothing). And, this could presumably be optimized in short order... perhaps even based on input from those of us that use the website.

The Trending Page has to be returned. The current format isn't working for me.

The page would need to exist in the first place in order for us to determine whether or not it was working.

There are two forums that are of primary interest to me. With the trending forums, I was enticed to visit other forums as well because of an interesting thread or question that I felt I could contribute to answering. Now I'll just go to my two forums = less engagement and less time on FT.

Has anyone noticed a drop in posts? I have noticed a drop in posts but I don't remember exactly when it started...it is definitely noticeable now though. Didn't think much of it then, but definitely seeing it now. There are days where only one or two subscribed threads are updated. I do remember thinking it was odd but could have been because people were getting busy at the time.

I wouldn't know, I've only visited pre-existing subscription threads as I found most of my content on the Trending page ;)

i dont have unlimited time to scroll through a dozen forums. FT is pretty much useless unless I have a specific issue to look up.

SEO does not work that way, unfortunately. You can get actively penalized for certain things (that are frequently opaque)