(Featured is a manual trigger by admins, basically for this purpose. Weβd want to unfeature anything that is now out of date even if it was popular.)
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Hi Yamboy1, welcome to dev.to :-)
Thanks to your post I learned something new about dev.to's source code.
According to this file a post becomes a potential classic if:
It can also be just a random high quality article (min 75 positive reactions).
Then from the list of the candidates, one post gets chosen at random and put in a cache for 90 minutes.
I probably missed something but at least now we both know it's a combination of popularity, user input and randomness :)
Nailed it π
(Featured is a manual trigger by admins, basically for this purpose. Weβd want to unfeature anything that is now out of date even if it was popular.)