Yeah, to be clear, I agree on both counts, see my reply to adam below about how long I think the frontpage decisions should take. I do think the tags are important so it’s been good to experiment with this, but it isn’t the right call to have delays of this length in general and I/the team should figure out a way to prevent the delays pretty soon.
Added: Actually, I think that as readers use tags more to filter their frontpage posts, it’ll be more important to many of them that a post is filtered in/out of their feed, than whether it was frontpaged efficiently. But I agree that for author experience, efficiency of frontpage is a big deal.
Yeah, to be clear, I agree on both counts, see my reply to adam below about how long I think the frontpage decisions should take. I do think the tags are important so it’s been good to experiment with this, but it isn’t the right call to have delays of this length in general and I/the team should figure out a way to prevent the delays pretty soon.
Added: Actually, I think that as readers use tags more to filter their frontpage posts, it’ll be more important to many of them that a post is filtered in/out of their feed, than whether it was frontpaged efficiently. But I agree that for author experience, efficiency of frontpage is a big deal.