On the desktop version (which I'm running on my Mac laptop using Chrome), I get flashing little black rectangular boxes if my mouse goes near any of the badges except for the gray hexagons. It's annoying, especially since I like to keep the mouse/curser to the left of the page so that it doesn't appear in the middle of some text I'm trying to read.

It weirdly just depends on where in the badge the cursor is placed. I just had it too and if you move your cursor more into the center/upper area of the badge, the box (which is as-designed) just stays there.

I get what you're doing, too. I normally move my cursor ALL the way left to read. Normally I don't touch any special assets that way. Might depend on screen resolution/size.

Where does one access the Trending topics part? I cannot find anything at all :confused:

"Community Discussion" section when you scroll down on this page: https://www.flyertalk.com/

IBJoel have there been changes made to the 'New' section of Comunity Discussions (and perhaps the Trending too)?

It seemed to be new threads with few posts, but now seems to be threads start dates from a while ago and threads with hundreds/thousand+ of posts.

Thanks in advance