Chronofilter? It's a weird name but that's what I called my branch and I'm sticking with it!
We now have filters on the home page and the tag pages which will help folks discover the most interesting content from the past while. The cream rises to the top really well this way.
This will make spending time in the tag pages more valuable. As someone who has trouble keeping up with the JavaScript community's pace of progress, this should help me click in and get a look at what the community engaged with most in the past week or month. And if you only come to the dev.to about once a week, this will help you catch up.
The latest tab might get spammy sometimes because it's the latest unranked and unmoderated content, but dipping in there to ❤️ the posts you like will go a long way in ensuring good content across the site. And we are always working on improving our ranking and moderation systems.
Anyway, hope folks enjoy the new navigation features!
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By the way, like all new features, there are some small ways this may not work as expected and we're working on ironing that all out!
What a very polite way to talk about bugs 😂
I find features are a result of bugs
All bugs are features if your creative enough
Gotta say, chronofilters is a really cool name.
Is there anyway to set a default chronofilter?
Not at the moment, but if you describe your use-case it could be possible. Use case is better than feature request because it lets us attempt to address the desired behavior whether or not setting a default chronofilter is the best way to go about it.
Sorry for the late response, I've been out all day and can't make comments on iOS. I was hoping to be able to set "Latest" as my default since I liked it most when posts were ordered chronologically. "Feed" is nice to to up and coming content but I personally prefer the default to be newest first, regardless of score. Hope this helps! (((((and kudos on avoiding the x/y problem)))))
Yeah, this is a reasonable request. For technical reasons it's more likely that you could tune the behavior of "feed" as opposed to having a different default chronotab.
Love it! Been hoping for this for a long time :D
Hi Ben, How does the ranking system works? Is there any CS algorithm in play? Just curious on how you are doing it.